Re: Web Development Using Ada?

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

> > I would not expect AWS to handle this - specialized tools like nginx do
> > it already and there is no reason to reinvent the wheel just to prove
> > that you can implement the whole infrastructure in Ada. It would be a
> > wasted effort, especially if we take into account the limited resources
> > of the Ada web-development community.
> 
> Do you already have some experiences while integrating your Ada 
> application on the nginx?

Yes. There is nothing special or particular to Ada (and AWS) in this.

The setup that we use is to have a single nginx proxy server listening on port 80 (the "standard" HTTP port) and dispatching requests based on the target host name (there can be many such names residing on a single physical address) to the particular AWS server that is handling the given service. The AWS server can be on the same or on a different machine than the one where nginx itself runs. Most importantly, the AWS server(s) does not have to listen on any privileged port number, which makes it much easier to manage from non-root accounts. All this is invisible to users.

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Maciej Sobczak * http://www.msobczak.com * http://www.inspirel.com