NAME

       Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::FastCGI - Deploying Catalyst with FastCGI

FastCGI Deployment

       FastCGI is a high-performance extension to CGI. It is suitable for production
       environments, and is the standard method for deploying Catalyst in shared hosting
       environments.

   Pros
       Speed

       FastCGI performs equally as well as mod_perl.  Don't let the 'CGI' fool you; your app runs
       as multiple persistent processes ready to receive connections from the web server.

       App Server

       When using external FastCGI servers, your application runs as a standalone application
       server.  It may be restarted independently from the web server.  This allows for a more
       robust environment and faster reload times when pushing new app changes.  The frontend
       server can even be configured to display a friendly "down for maintenance" page while the
       application is restarting.

       Load-balancing

       You can launch your application on multiple backend servers and allow the frontend web
       server to perform load-balancing among all of them. And of course, if one goes down, your
       app continues to run.

       Multiple versions of the same app

       Each FastCGI application is a separate process, so you can run different versions of the
       same app on a single server.

       Can run with threaded Apache

       Since your app is not running inside of Apache, the faster mpm_worker module can be used
       without worrying about the thread safety of your application.

       Widely supported.

       FastCGI is compatible with many server implementations, not just Apache.

   Cons
       You may have to disable mod_deflate.  If you experience page hangs with mod_fastcgi then
       remove deflate.load and deflate.conf from mods-enabled/

       More complex environment

       With FastCGI, there are more things to monitor and more processes running than when using
       mod_perl.

   Standalone FastCGI Server
       In server mode the application runs as a standalone server and accepts connections from a
       web server.  The application can be on the same machine as the web server, on a remote
       machine, or even on multiple remote machines.  Advantages of this method include running
       the Catalyst application as a different user than the web server, and the ability to set
       up a scalable server farm.

       To start your application in server mode, install the FCGI::ProcManager module and then
       use the included fastcgi.pl script.

           $ script/myapp_fastcgi.pl -l /tmp/myapp.socket -n 5

       Command line options for fastcgi.pl include:

           -d -daemon     Daemonize the server.
           -p -pidfile    Write a pidfile with the pid of the process manager.
           -l -listen     Listen on a socket path, hostname:port, or :port.
           -n -nproc      The number of processes started to handle requests.

       See below for the specific web server configurations for using the external server.

WEB SERVERS

       Any web server which supports FastCGI should work with Catalyst. Configuration recipies
       for well-known web servers are linked below, and we would welcome contributions from
       people deploying Catalyst on other web servers.

   Apache
       Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::Apache::FastCGI

   nginx
       Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::nginx::FastCGI

   lighttpd
       Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::lighttpd::FastCGI

   Microsoft IIS
       Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::IIS::FastCGI

AUTHORS

       Catalyst Contributors, see Catalyst.pm

COPYRIGHT

       This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.