Livecode server + NGINX ?

2015-01-20 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi Friends, Did anyone know if Livecode Server can be set to use NGINX as its web server ? Thanks and best regards, -- Pierre Sahores mobile : 06 03 95 77 70 www.sahores-conseil.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please vi

Re: Livecode server + NGINX ?

2015-01-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Pierre Sahores wrote: Did anyone know if Livecode Server can be set to use NGINX as its web server ? My (admittedly limited) understanding is that NginX doesn't support CGI, only FastCGI, so without threading LiveCode would seem a difficult fit for that server environment. -- Richard Gaski

Re: Livecode server + NGINX ?

2015-01-20 Thread Peter W A Wood
Pierre Richard is correct that nginx does not support CGI. It will forward requests to an upstream server or a number of upstream servers. I support one application that has been running for a couple of years that forwards CGI requests to a second server. (The second server is Cheyenne from Sof

Re: Livecode server + NGINX ?

2015-01-21 Thread Pierre Sahores
Thanks Richard and Peter. Cheyenne, the Rebol HTTPd (Carl Sassenrath and Cindy !) and Olivier Auverlot, a friend i used to be colleague with when i was working for the French Secretary of Education… Warm Regards, Pierre Le 21 janv. 2015 à 03:14, Peter W A Wood a écrit : > Pierre > > Richard

Re: Livecode server + NGINX ?

2015-01-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter W A Wood wrote: > Richard is correct that nginx does not support CGI. It will forward > requests to an upstream server or a number of upstream servers. I > support one application that has been running for a couple of years > that forwards CGI requests to a second server. (The second server

Re: Livecode server + NGINX ?

2015-01-21 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 21.01.2015 at 8:37 Uhr -0800 Richard Gaskin apparently wrote: A few months ago I was experimenting with multi-processing in LiveCode as an alternative to multi-threading. The literature on each notes the higher overhead of the former compared to the latter, but also that the overhead is n

re: Livecode server + NGINX ?

2015-01-21 Thread Pierre Sahores
100% my tough too, Richard ! With up to 3750 connections/second handled in a LAN test < 1500 U$ dedicated server configuration with XSS/CSRF filter and protection set to ON, Linux/Apache/LC Server/RevIgniter/PostgreSQL is able to handle more than any of my clients will probably ever need in prod

Re: Livecode server + NGINX ?

2015-01-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Robert Brenstein wrote: On 21.01.2015 at 8:37 Uhr -0800 Richard Gaskin wrote: A few months ago I was experimenting with multi-processing in LiveCode as an alternative to multi-threading. The literature on each notes the higher overhead of the former compared to the latter, but also that the o