On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 18:03, Duncan Hutty <dhutty@allgoodbits.org> wrote:
I'm looking to have nginx use Dancer to run a subsection of a website, but while I know how to use apache fairly well, I'm new to both nginx and Dancer.
We use nginx extensively and I would definitely recommend this scheme. I prefer HTTP-only setup for various reasons (mostly because it's much easier to debug than FastCGI) so here's my very simple Starman-based configuration that runs http://perl.worldken.org. I run a Dancer app with this: $ plackup -s Starman -p 6001 -E production And the nginx config: server { listen 80; server_name perl.worldken.org; access_log /var/log/nginx/perl.worldken.org.access.log; location / { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:6001; } } Ask any questions.
I've looked carefully at D::Deployment and nginx/PSGI/Plack docs and I confess to be a little confused as to where each part fits into the whole.
I think I understand how to make nginx proxy for requests for the subsection using fastcgi:
server { listen *:80; servername blah location / { root /var/www/html; index index.html }
location /dancer { include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/dancer.sock; } }
But that means that, unlike Apache, I need something else to create the socket, listen for requests, respond to the requests, etc.
I think that could be a standalone plackup daemon: plackup -s FCGI --listen /var/run/dancer.sock --daemonize --nproc 5 --app /path/to/Dancer_App/app.psgi
that would I then write my own initscript for.
Is that: a) correct? b) considered to be an admirable, efficient way to run a small production server or is this more for a development environment?
I think that instead of the plackup command, I could use Starman to do the same thing.
I think my confusion is coming from the fact that there are so many possible ways to deploy and I don't have a good understanding of how fastcgi/psgi/plack all fit together.
Perhaps I need some explication rather than merely instructions, although instructions would be a good start:)
Duncan Hutty
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