On 10/31/05, Nick Kew <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday 31 October 2005 13:58, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What is the (best) way to connect a C++ server with Apache? > > What's the language got to do with it? Not much, but if it was PHP, mod_php would be an alternative. > Use whatever protocol your > backend supports. I don't have an existing backend. In fact, I've got nothing at all yet for this project. > > AJP looks usable, but I'm not sure if it's the right way. > > Apache's proxy framework is one option. DBD is another. The proxy framework would require my backend to export an HTTP interface? Is DBD the Database-independent framework with driver? How would that be useful for this? > > CGI is no option for performance reasons. > > Have you benchmarked it? Most backends (eg anything using servlets) > impose a far bigger overhead than CGI. No, but I'd like my application server to be persistent in order to use smart caching. And it should scale to 100 - 1000 requests/s. > > There is no open source FastCGI implementation available (it seems). > > Really? I guess I didn't look good enough. But that's not part of the standard Apache distribution is it?