Justin Hawkins wrote: > Hi everyone, > > After having got fed up with Apache (again) I decided to give > lighttpd and FastCGI a go. > > I used the example at http://www.masonhq.com/?FastCGI and eventually > got it to work. > > I had to make one change, which caused me some serious hair pulling > before I worked it out. I doubt my solution is any any way 'good' and > I welcome comments on doing it better. > > The symptom was the call $h->handle_cgi_object($cgi) failing with: > > Component path given to Interp->load must be absolute (was > given ) > > It seems that FastCGI under lighttpd does NOT set the environment > variables PATH_INFO and QUERY_STRING. So I did this: > > my $uri = $ENV{REQUEST_URI}; > if ($uri =~ /\?/) { > $uri =~ /^(.*?)\?(.*)/; > $ENV{PATH_INFO} = $1; > $ENV{QUERY_STRING} = $2; > } else { > $ENV{PATH_INFO} = $uri; > $ENV{QUERY_STRING} = ""; > } > > (at the beginning of the "while ($cgi = new CGI::Fast)" loop). > > This seems to make it work, at least for my quick 5 minute test (a > component loads and can be passed parameters). > > Possibly this will save someone else some heartache. > > I like the idea of getting this to work neatly - separating each > mason app into it's own little process(es) communicating via FastCGI > would be a big improvement over Apache and mod_perl for me. > > - Justin > If you can, could you please make an annotation on the Lighty wiki (http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/) about setting up Mason?
I would be most appreciative. I am using Apache as well but investigating lighttpd and at some point I will be trying out Mason with lighttpd/fast-cgi. Thanks if you can! :Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mason-users mailing list Mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users
