[Catalyst] Anyone actually using FastCGI with Apache (or even lighttpd)?

[Andreas Marienborg]

I have had this problem since 5.33 I think.

just wrote it off as a configuration problem and PEBKAC:)

andreas

On 29. aug. 2006, at 03.02, Daisuke Maki wrote:

> I just got bit by this last night  with lighttpd + FastCGI and was
> wondering, too. My quick and dirty fix for lighttpd was
>
>     $path = $base_path . ($ENV{PATH_INFO} || $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME} || '');
>
> in Catalyst::Engine::CGI.
>
> However, after some sleep and reading other solutions, it does seem  
> that
>   subclassing the App or a base controller class would be better.
>
> is this a problem with FastCGI + Catalyst 5.7+? I was vaguely thinking
> that this is a problem with lighttpd + FastCGI, but OP's report  
> suggests
> that it doesn't work on Apache either, so...
>
> --d
>
> Mark Blythe wrote:
>> Hey Jason,
>>
>> I think you're having the same problem I had back in June.  I was
>> amazed that nobody else seemed to have been having this issue.  I
>> guess it just took a few months. :-)
>>
>> Anyway, here's the solution message I posted, which has been working
>> fine for me since then.  Take a look and see if it will work for you:
>>
>> http://lists.rawmode.org/pipermail/catalyst/2006-June/008361.html
>>
>> I have this in my app as a Catalyst plugin.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On 8/28/06, Jason Kohles <email at jasonkohles.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've been struggling for a while now to get an app working under
>>> FastCGI, mostly under Apache, although I did briefly experiment with
>>> lighttpd, it gave me the same results.
>>>
>>> In a nutshell, the problem is this, I setup an application using  
>>> this
>>> configuration (which I found in the documentation):
>>>
>>> FastCgiExternalServer /tmp/test -socket /tmp/test.socket
>>> <VirtualHost *:80>
>>>        ServerName test.domain.com
>>>        ServerAdmin webmaster at domain.com
>>>        DocumentRoot /var/www/html
>>>
>>>        Alias / /tmp/test/
>>> </VirtualHost>
>>>
>>> When running a Catalyst app with this configuration, what happens is
>>> that any URL that is one level off the root, and ends with a /  
>>> ends up
>>> at the main controllers index method.  You can demonstrate this  
>>> with a
>>> very basic modification of a generic application, just use
>>> 'catalyst.pl Test' to create a test app, then put these two  
>>> methods in
>>> Controller::Root:
>>>
>>> sub default : Private {
>>>    my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
>>>    $c->response->body( "This is default" );
>>> }
>>> sub index : Private {
>>>    my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
>>>    $c->response->body( "This is index" );
>>> }
>>>
>>> Loading this application as http://test.domain.com/ should return
>>> 'This is index', while any other url on the server should say  
>>> 'This is
>>> default'.  What happens however, is that if you request a URL  
>>> such as
>>> http://test.domain.com/foo/, you also get 'This is index'.
>>>
>>> The reason for this is that Catalyst::Engine::FastCGI inherits from
>>> Catalyst::Engine::CGI.  Catalyst::Engine::CGI::prepare_path() has  
>>> this
>>> code:
>>>
>>>    $base_path = $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME} || '/';
>>>
>>> When using the CGI interface, this works fine, and most of the time
>>> this seems to work fine for FastCGI as well, except when you use URL
>>> such as http://test.domain.com/foo/, what happens is that Apache (or
>>> mod_fastcgi) sets up these environment variables as:
>>>
>>> SCRIPT_NAME = '/foo'
>>> PATH_INFO = '/'
>>>
>>> Rather than the values you would expect them to have, which  
>>> should be:
>>>
>>> SCRIPT_NAME = '/'
>>> PATH_INFO = '/foo'
>>>
>>> This seems to be a fairly common problem (there are bugs that  
>>> mention
>>> similar behaviour in the bug tracking queues for lighttpd, rt, trac,
>>> zope, and several others), although I haven't been able to find a
>>> solution anywhere.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to use fastcgi with the external server so that I can  
>>> have
>>> different apps using different perl installs for deployment  
>>> purposes,
>>> which is a lot trickier with mod_perl, although if I can't get this
>>> working, I may have to bite the bullet and see about doing something
>>> ugly with mod_perl to make it happen.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jason Kohles
>>> email at jasonkohles.com - http://www.jasonkohles.com/
>>> "A witty saying proves nothing."  -- Voltaire
>>>
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