Well, I wrote a simple blog engine after finishing the chapter although I don't use a database here, the blog is saved directly to disk (http://github.com/l0s

Well, I wrote a simple blog engine after finishing the chapter although I don't use a database here, the blog is saved directly to disk (http://github.com/l0stman/Blog http://github.com/l0stman/Blog). The biggest hurdle with Common Lisp is configuring the system correctly because there's no out of the box solution. Although there's a lot of library -- http://www.cliki.net http://www.cliki.net is a great resource -- figuring out how to use asdf-install is a bit painful. I took me almost four days to figure out how to launch Hunchentoot as a daemon at startup under FreeBSD (http://github.com/l0stman/Hunchentoot-daemon http://github.com/l0stman/Hunchentoot-daemon). In my case, the lisp server itself lays behind nginx as a proxy. The latter serves the static pages too. Here's nginx's configuration: server { listen 80; server_name localhost; location / { root /usr/local/www/nginx; # Use absract URL for static pages try_files $uri.html $uri/index.html $uri $uri.txt @fallback; } location @fallback { return 404; } # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html # error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html; location = /50x.html { root /usr/local/www/nginx-dist; } # Tunnel all requests where the URI path begins with "/ht" # to a Hunchentoot server listening on 127.0.0.1:8080 # location /ht/ { rewrite ^/ht/(.*)$ /$1 break; proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080; proxy_redirect http://127.0.0.1:8080 /ht; proxy_read_timeout 300; } }