[Catalyst] FastCGI is Weak Sauce

[Kieren Diment]

On 01/07/06, Hugh Lampert <hlampert at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> > * Perrin Harkins <perrin at elem.com> [2006-06-29 23:20]:
> >
> >> Silly complaint or not, people running mod_perl already have
> >> this covered, since the normal mode of deployment is to run a
> >> static web server and proxy via HTTP over to a mod_perl server
> >> for all dynamic stuff, i.e. exactly what he's trying to build
> >> for Ruby.
> >>
>
> Is that really the normal mode of deployment?  Is that for high traffic
> apps?  I was planning on having only Apache server for all content,
> static and dynamic (since I'm writing a small departmental intranet web
> app).  Is it really necessary to have two servers to make a Catalyst app
> work well?



No, but it's pretty trivial  to bypass catalyst for static content, so if
you put:

Alias /static /var/www/MyApp/root/static somewhere in your server config

and tada, static content is served by apache instead of catalyst.
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