[Catalyst] what happened to mod_fastcgi?

[Steve]

Like John, we had good experiences with fastcgi for the past 5 years or 
so.  That said, a recent O/S upgrade (RHEL 7.1) caused us to migrate to 
mod_fcgid, as we had no luck getting mod_fastcgi to work.

Steve Schafer


On 4/5/2016 6:14 PM, John Napiorkowski wrote:
> I can't say why this site disappeared, but this project is 'mature' at 
> the least and the technology is probably not seeing updates much.  And 
> a lot of people are doing deployments using the front server as a 
> proxy rather than other a protocol (for example running the server 
> application on a stamen process with apache or nginx infrount via http 
> or (ideally) via socket).  As a result the approach is falling out of 
> favor for no particularly good reason other than a lot of people just 
> don't use it.
>
> That said its solid and I would use mod_fastcgi (and I do on several 
> production applications).  I don't like mod_fcgid  and have not had 
> good luck with it.
>
> Just go ahead and keep using it.  As long as you understand how it 
> works and know how to set it up its great.  I think its just slowly 
> harder to find the correct documentation around it.
>
> Snap
>
>
> On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 9:56 AM, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> 
> wrote:
>
>
> I had problems getting mod_fcgid working well on my (small) catalyst 
> setups.
>
> I've had good luck so far with mod_proxy_fcgi (with apache 2.4.x)
>
> On Apr 5, 2016, at 8:46 AM, clara resende <clrrsnd at gmail.com 
> <mailto:clrrsnd at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > The site of mod_fastcgi http://www.fastcgi.com/ 
> <http://www.fastcgi.com/>has disappeared and googling a bit further I 
> found that apparently the project has been abandoned.
> >
> > Does anybody know exactly what is going on with the project?
> >
> > I've been using catalyst+apache+mod_fastcgi for many years and now I 
> am wondering if I should switch to mod_fcgid. What I understand is 
> that both modules work differently and have different performance, are 
> there any guidelines/recommendations with respect to migrating?
>
> -- 
> Daniel J. Luke
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