[Catalyst] Canot get application working on IIS7 via FastCGI

[Tomas Doran]

On 23 Oct 2012, at 22:03, Lyle wrote:

>>> Otherwise you get issues when people try to open files with a relative path.
>> 
>> This is normal in other web servers also.
>> 
>> Doing that is broken, we provide $app->path_to so you don't ever have to do that.
> 
> How is it broken?

Because, as much as possible, code should attempt to separate concerns.

The pwd should be the responsibility of the web server layer, not a dependency of your application component.

Standard daemonization techniques include a chdir('/') step 

which is always going to ruin relative paths.

Your application precluding your web stack from being a daemon is a pretty big ask, no?

Cheers
t0m