Phusion Passenger users guide index

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Phusion Passenger is a web server and application server, designed to be fast, robust and lightweight. It runs your web apps with the least amount of hassle by taking care of almost all administrative heavy lifting for you. Advanced administration tools allow you to gain deep insight into your web applications' operations and to keep your servers healthy. Phusion Passenger is polyglot by design, and currently supports Ruby (Rack), Python (WSGI) and Node.js.

Phusion Passenger has several integration modes, each mode with its own documentation, covering installation, usage, troubleshooting and more.


1. Overview

1.1. Nginx integration mode

In this mode, Phusion Passenger integrates directly into Nginx as an Nginx module. You operate Phusion Passenger mostly through Nginx and through Nginx configuration files. The Nginx integration mode is, along with the Standalone mode, highly optimized for performance.

Read the documentation for the Nginx integration mode >>

1.2. Apache integration mode

In this mode, Phusion Passenger integrates directly into Apache as an Apache module. You operate Phusion Passenger mostly through Apache and through Apache configuration files.

Read the documentation for the Apache integration mode >>

1.3. Standalone mode

In this mode, Phusion Passenger operates as a fully-featured, secure standalone HTTP server. You do not need to have an existing web server like Apache or Nginx. This mode is ideal…

Along with the Nginx mode, the Standalone mode is highly optimized for performance.

Read the documentation for the Standalone mode >>


2. Installation and upgrade

Please refer to:


3. Troubleshooting

Please refer to:


4. Where to get support

Please consult the Phusion Passenger website for a full list of support resources.


5. Appendix A: About this document

The text of this document is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

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Phusion Passenger is brought to you by Phusion.

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Phusion Passenger is a trademark of Hongli Lai & Ninh Bui.


Last updated 2013-10-26 22:00:00 UTC