[Catalyst] Canot get application working on IIS7 via FastCGI

[Lyle]

On 23/10/2012 22:31, Tomas Doran wrote:
> 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.

ok

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

So when web servers are inconsistent, why shouldn't the application be 
sure it's pwd is where it's installed?

> 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?

Why would a chdir in the application affect the daemons pwd? Or are you 
talking about the application running as a daemon itself?


Lyle