I'm running dancer app with plackup: DANCER_ENVIRONMENT='development' plackup -s FCGI --port 3001 myapp.pl I'm using nginx as a web sever. Here is part of its config: server { listen 3000; location / { fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:3001; include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params; } } With this configuration I can access the main page of my app, but only it. In development.log I always get: [27975] core @0.000759> request: GET / from 1.1.1.1 in /usr/share/perl5/Dancer/Handler.pm l. 49 To find out why this is so I've added 3 lines to before sub in my app: debug request->{path}; debug request->path_info(); debug request->to_string(); After restarting plackup, I access "/": [28457] core @0.000769> request: GET / from 1.1.1.1 in /usr/share/perl5/Dancer/Handler.pm l. 49 ... [28457] debug @0.035033> [hit #1]/ in /var/www/myapp/lib/myapp.pm l. 41 [28457] debug @0.035033> [hit #1]/ in /var/www/myapp/lib/myapp.pm l. 42 [28457] debug @0.038886> [hit #1][#1] GET / in /var/www/myapp/lib/myapp.pm l. 43 And here is the log when I try to access "/abc" (in the browser I still see the main page): [28457] core @0.000246> request: GET / from 1.1.1.1 in /usr/share/perl5/Dancer/Handler.pm l. 49 ... [28457] debug @0.016833> [hit #2]/abc in /var/www/myapp/lib/myapp.pm l. 41 [28457] debug @0.018028> [hit #2]/ in /var/www/myapp/lib/myapp.pm l. 42 [28457] debug @0.018363> [hit #2][#2] GET /abc in /var/www/myapp/lib/myapp.pm l. 43 I looked through the dancer code and found out that is be because $self->{env}->{'PATH_INFO'} is empty line in sub _build_path_info in the file Request.pm A dirty workaroud is to place "request->path_info(request->{path});" in before sub in the app. But this is bad because redirects do not work. So. My question is: how can I fix populating PATH_INFO in my app, running with plackup and nginx.