From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-02-11T03:15:28+09:00
Subject: Re: one lonely fcgi user

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, A.M. Kuchling wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:23:27 +0000,
> 	ahoward <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov> wrote:
> >   * best methodology for shutting down/reloading script, there seems to be too
> >     many ways to put apache into a bad state using fcgi's
>
> My project group kept running into mysterious hangs with Apache's
> mod_fastcgi,

can you elaborate?  how were you managing signals?


> and one of us wrote a slightly different module, mod_scgi
> (http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/scgi/).  SCGI tries to keep things
> simple, so Apache never starts an SCGI process for you.  Instead, you run a
> separate server process that can be started and stopped independently of
> Apache.  The advantages are that the mod_scgi C code is *much* simpler, the
> SCGI protocol is simpler than the FastCGI protocol, and you can run the SCGI
> server under any user ID and group ID you like.

how is this different than simply using FastCgiExternalServer ?

> Currently there's only a Python SCGI client module, but a Ruby module would
> certainly be added to the distribution, if anyone wants to write one.

i may be interested - if i could convince my boss to donate my time.

-a

>
> --amk                                                    (www.amk.ca)
> I'm as fit as a trombone.
>       -- The Doctor, in "Time and the Rani"
>

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