Rails and Python hosting

I am trying to host some files/rails app in the port 8080 for external access. For Python I am using the SimpleHTTPServer module, and for Rails, webrick.

However, both of them does not work very well. I don't get t开发者_StackOverflowhe response back, and, sometimes, if I get it, it's VERY slow. Nevertheless, apache works very well on the port 8080 (I am not running them at the same time).

What is going on?

I can't speak for Python, but Webrick is not meant to be used for an in-production application—you didn't mention if this application was in production, though you did say 'external access'.

For Rails, have a look at Passenger.