Serving web application without Lighttpd/Apache

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Published on 2010-04-25T19:43:00Z Indexed on 2010/04/25 20:23 UTC
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Hi,

As Rails applications default run on port 3000, would it be possible to start the application on port 80? Is it really required to have a fastcgi/mod_proxy enabled web server in front? My users won't be more than three at a time. If so, how would I be able to do so?

Thanks!

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