For this post i decided to explain how i’ve setup Common Lisp Hunchentoot webserver running on Ubuntu 8.10 and how to set it up for remote interaction using Emacs and SLIME (Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs).
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Category: Programming
Hunchentoot behind a proxy server
Having a lightweight http server (in this case Nginx) proxy request to Hunchentoot offers some advantages over letting Hunchentoot speak directly to the web:
- You can have nginx serve all the static files for you app, this way serving them faster while freeing lisp process for generating only dinamic content.
- You can take advantage of nginx caching strategies.
- You can use nginx for load-balancing.
Setting up SLIME Tramp filename translation
Picking up from “Remote login with SSH key pair” and the updated “Setting up Lisp & Hunchentoot on a web server”, when i run emacs locally and connect to my running lisp + hunchentoot process on the server, the REPL alone, although awesome, is insufficient for my hacking need. I’ll need some way to work with remote files…
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