I am trying to work through deployng a Catalyst app on an apache2 server
with mod_fcgi installed. I don't know what I am doing, and I have spent
an embarrassingly long time accomplishing nothing.
The app runs okay when I run the standalone myapp_server.pl on the
server. Requests from sitename:3000 generate charming debug messages
and pages appear in the browser -- just as when I run the app locally.
The trouble is that I cannot get myapp_fastcgi.pl to serve pages. When
I try to use myapp_fastcgi.pl, the standard debug status messages
appear, followed by this:
[info] sumo powered by Catalyst 5.80031
FastCGI: manager (pid 14119): initialized
FastCGI: manager (pid 14119): server (pid 14120) started
FastCGI: server (pid 14120): initialized
Seems fine. But requests result only in 404 errors.
I am stumped and out of things to try.
I have looked at a large number of pages on deploying Catalyst apps,
including the wiki, advent calendar (several days),
Catalyst::Engine::FastCGI docs (all three modes), and tried most of
them. The only thing I have really discovered is that most of the
instructions seem to be for mod_fastcgi rather than mod_fcgi. And most
of what I have found and tried prevent apache from starting. (I think
because mod_fcgi breaks on ExternalServer directives.)
The most promising, because it deals specifically with mod_fcgid, might
be
http://blog.hjksolutions.com/articles/2007/07/19/catalyst-deployment-with-apache-2-and-mod_fcgid
but I don't understand even the basics of how it works. It doesn't seem
to tell anything to listen anywhere, and I don't know how to
successfully start myapp_fastcgi.pl without telling it to listen someplace.
Any suggestions would help. Thanks.
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