[CentOS-announce] Announcing release for Phusion Passenger 4.0 on CentOS Linux 6 x86_64 SCL

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I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Phusion

Passenger in version 4.0 on CentOS Linux 6 x86_64, delivered via a

Software Collection (SCL) built by the SCLo Special Interest Group

(https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo).

 

QuickStart

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You can get started in three easy steps:

$ sudo yum install centos-release-scl

$ sudo yum install rh-passenger40 rh-passenger40-ruby22 nginx16

$ scl enable rh-passenger40 rh-ruby22 bash

 

At this point you should be able to use passenger just as a normal

application. An examples of commands run might be:

$ passenger start

$ passenger status

 

In order to view the individual components included in this collection,

including other packages that allow you to use passenger with Ruby 2.0

or 1.9.3, instead of 2.2 as in example above, you can run:

$ sudo yum list rh-passenger40\*

 

The rh-passenger40 collection relies either on the rh-ruby22, ruby200 or

ruby193 collection and the nginx16 collection, so you need to install

one of the following packages: rh-passenger40-ruby193,

rh-passenger40-ruby200, or rh-passenger40-ruby22.

 

About Software Collections

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Software Collections give you the power to build, install, and use

multiple versions of software on the same system, without affecting

system-wide installed packages. Each collection is delivered as a group

of RPMs, with the grouping being done using the name of the collection

as a prefix of all packages that are part of the software collection.

 

The collection rh-passenger40 delivers Phusion Passenger, a web and

application server designed to be fast, robust and lightweight. The

rh-passenger40 Software Collection can also be used with Apache HTTP

Server from the httpd24 Software Collection. To do so, install the

rh-passenger40-mod_passenger package.

 

For more on the Phusion Passenger, see https://www.phusionpassenger.com.

 

The SCLo SIG in CentOS

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The Software Collections SIG group is an open community group

co-ordinating the development of the SCL technology, and helping curate

a reference set of collections. In addition to the Phusion Passenger

collections being released here, we also build and deliver databases,

web servers, and language stacks including multiple versions of

PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Apache HTTP Server, NodeJS, Ruby, Python and others.

 

Software Collections SIG release was announced at

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2015-October/021446.html

 

You can learn more about Software Collections concepts at:

http://softwarecollections.org

You can find information on the SIG at

https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo ; this includes howto

get involved and help with the effort.

 

We meet every Wednesday at 16:00 UTC in #centos-devel (ref:

https://www.centos.org/community/calendar), for an informal open forum

open to anyone who might have comments, concerns or wants to get started

with SCL's in CentOS.

 

Enjoy!

 

Honza

SCLo SIG member

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