I have configured Apache to send back a 200 response without serving any file with this configuration line
Redirect 200 /hello
Can I do this with Nginx? I don't want to serve a file, I just want the server to respond with a 200 (I'm just logging the request).
I know I can add an index file and achieve the same thing, but doing it in the config means there's one less thing that can go wrong.
I'm using EC2 and sometimes launch servers that I want to use only for a short time. Usually I want to install some version or versions of Ruby on them, and for this RVM is very convenient -- if it wasn't for the fact that it takes forever to compile Ruby. It's really boring to have to wait almost half an hour just for Ruby to compile when the rest of the server setup is done in minutes. It completely kills the cloud computing experience.
Is there a way to get the convenience of RVM without the inconvenience of compiling each Ruby version for every new server I launch? Can I precompile a Ruby version and keep it somewhere accessible, and then have RVM use that instead of compiling it from source? Can I simply archive some directory under the RVM root dir after I've installed a Ruby version, save it somewhere and then extract it in the right place on the next server I launch? In that case, which files and directories do I need to keep?
I want to use RVM not only to be able to switch between Ruby versions, but also because it allows me to keep separate gemsets for different applications, so not using RVM would be very inconvenient.
All servers have the same OS and architecture, Ubuntu 10.04, 32 bit.
Passenger recently got support for Nginx, what are the pros and cons of it over Apache as a web server for Rails applications?