[Dancer-users] CGI/FCGI deployment & uri_for (Naveed Massjouni)

[Robert Olson]

I should have noted the behavior was identical with fcgi and cgi. I  
brought this all up partly to work out what the deployment  
documentation should say, since that configuration came directly from  
there. If the recommended deployment doesn't work correctly, that's a  
bug in the documentation.

--bob


On Jan 2, 2011, at 8:43 AM, awnstudio at gmail.com wrote:

> Your Rewrite is using .cgi instead of .fcgi. Also it doesn't have a  
> DirectoryIndex. Did you know you could do ...
>
> <Files "app">
>     SetHandler cgi-script
> </Files>
>
> Which in effect treats "app" as a file not a folder :) No more need  
> for symlink ln -s ...
>
> - Your truely
>
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> Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 06:38:50 -0500
> From: Naveed Massjouni <naveedm9 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dancer-users] CGI/FCGI deployment & uri_for
> To: Robert Olson <bob at rdolson.org>
> Cc: Dancer-users at perldancer.org
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> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Robert Olson <bob at rdolson.org> wrote:
>> It seems I must be doing something dumb, but I'm not seeing it.
>>
>> I'm putting up a dancer app for a domain hosted at dreamhost. I  
>> created the
>> app using the latest 1.2 dancer, and changed the webroot for the  
>> domain to
>> appdir/public using the DH config panel. The following .htaccess is  
>> in
>> place:
>>
>> AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
>> Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
>>
>> RewriteEngine On
>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
>> RewriteRule (.*) /dispatch.cgi/$1 [QSA,L]
>>
>> Access to the routes works like a champ (including
>> Net::Google::FederatedLogin authentication which I may turn into a  
>> plugin;
>> also thinking about a CGI::FormBuilder plugin like Catalyst's).
>>
>> However, uri_for returns a path that includes the rewritten path with
>> dispatch.cgi in it:
>>
>> uri_for("/dog") => http://<domain>/dispatch.cgi/dog
>>
>> I'm assuming it should instead return http://<domain>/dog.
>>
>> This seems like something there is an easy solution to, but I'm not  
>> finding
>> it. Does anyone have any advice?
>
> A simple thing that I do when deploying a CGI app is using a soft link
> instead of a rewrite rule:
>
>    cd /var/www/cgi-bin # your system's cgi-bin may be at a different  
> location
>    ln -s /path/to/myapp/public/dispatch.cgi myapp
>
> You need to tell your web server to treat '^/myapp' as a cgi script.
> Then you can visit http://<domain>/myapp and it will be the root of
> your app.  uri_for("/dog") should then return
> http://<domain>/myapp/dog
>
> I usually deploy as CGI for playing around or for development.  When
> deploying for production, I use FastCGI, and then it is easy to mount
> your app to '/' or '/whatever'.
>
> -Naveed
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --bob
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