On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Ian Docherty wrote:
Why wouldn't you just use the standalone server bundled with Catalyst?
Fcgi is great for production, but the processes are fairly thick memory
wise, so having instances for each developer could be an issue. We use
the cat server for development and works fine for about 5-10 people at any
given time on a modest box (4G ram)
Good point and my reasons are not clear now :) mainly because when I
originally tried this I had conflicts between the URI served by apache and
the one served by catalyst. Having tried this tonight I see where I was going
wrong and I can easily set this up. So, I will try it this way for a few days
to see how it goes. Thanks.
It is worthwhile to make it easy for individual devs to run their code
with fastcgi or whatever your end deployment environment will be. The
built-in Catalyst dev server is fantastic for rapid development, but it's
not identical to fastcgi or mod_perl (or whatever).
One example is configuring a front-end proxy for static content. You just
cannot test changes to this proxy without using it, and the same goes for
changes to a mod_perl configuration.
The other reason was that I eventually was hoping to serve several clients
from the same machine, running multiple copies of the same application (but
perhaps different versions) and knew I could not do this with Apache mod-perl
but could do so with fast-cgi, hence my reason for going down that path.
A perfectly reasonable production plan.
I suppose however that from this experience it would not be a good idea to
try and serve several fast-cgi Catalyst applications from the same server?
Not at all. This depends on the resources of the server, the resources the
app needs, and how many clients each app servers. Of course, you also need
to pay extra attention to shared environment things like libraries.
-dave
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