[Catalyst] Slow fastcgi: A debugging aid

[Ian Wells]

> On 4 May 2009, at 09:19, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
>>
>> I have started using fastcgi with a Catalyst app, using it as an external
>> server, but I've seen that it works very slow and many requests give a
>> timeout error and display a 500 error because of this.

This is a fairly standard sort of problem, so have a debugging aid:

http://dev.catalystframework.org/wiki/gettingstarted/howtos/quick_and_dirty_FastCGI

The idea here is that this produces a 'known good' minimal FastCGI
implementation.  Unfortunately, I can't test this properly at the
moment due to issues with my development server, but please:

- try it
- ask me if you have problems, but if you have fixes, change the page!
- simplify the page and script if at all possible.  *Don't* make it
more like a production environment - it's not supposed to be a
production environment.  *Do* remove any possible complexity (I would
prefer a config file to a perl script if at all possible, but lighttpd
seems to want absolute paths.)

The idea is to remove one variable from an otherwise difficult
question.  'My FastCGI setup with server a, configuration b and my
custom application' becomes 'my custom application, running in this
standard fastcgi configuration'...

Cheers,
-- 
Ian.