NAME

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

Lighttpd

These configurations were tested with Lighttpd 1.4.7.

Standalone server mode

server.document-root = "/var/www/MyApp/root"

fastcgi.server = (
    "" => (
        "MyApp" => (
            "socket"      => "/tmp/myapp.socket",
            "check-local" => "disable"
        )
    )
)

Static mode

server.document-root = "/var/www/MyApp/root"

fastcgi.server = (
    "" => (
        "MyApp" => (
            "socket"       => "/tmp/myapp.socket",
            "check-local"  => "disable",
            "bin-path"     => "/var/www/MyApp/script/myapp_fastcgi.pl",
            "min-procs"    => 2,
            "max-procs"    => 5,
            "idle-timeout" => 20
        )
    )
)

Note that in newer versions of lighttpd, the min-procs and idle-timeout values are disabled. The above example would start 5 processes.

Non-root configuration

You can also run your application at any non-root location with either of the above modes. Note the required mod_rewrite rule.

url.rewrite = ( "myapp\$" => "myapp/" )
fastcgi.server = (
    "/myapp" => (
        "MyApp" => (
            # same as above
        )
    )
)

For more information on using FastCGI under Lighttpd, visit http://www.lighttpd.net/documentation/fastcgi.html

Static file handling

Static files can be served directly by lighttpd for a performance boost.

$HTTP["url"] !~ "^/(?:img/|static/|css/|favicon.ico$)" {
      fastcgi.server = (
          "" => (
              "MyApp" => (
                  "socket"       => "/tmp/myapp.socket",
                  "check-local"  => "disable",
              )
          )
      )
 }

Which serves everything in the img, static, css directories statically, as well as the favicon file.

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.