Edgar Frank wrote:
Hi Nick, thanks for you instant reply.mod_proxy_fcgi is not really ready for primetime. You should only use it if you're expecting to hack/debug it, and preferably feed back your experiences/fixes.That's good to know. I saw mod_proxy_fcgi being relatively old. When it was added into the SVN trunk it looked much like a copy of the formerly existing mod_proxy_fcgi. So I expected it to be kinda stable.
Hmmm. I may have been wrong; it's just my impression that mod_proxy_fcgi had essentially been abandoned.
What would be then the right place/person to report feedback to?
dev@httpd and/or bugzilla. But that depends on someone who's actually worked on it being motivated to respond, and mod_fcgid reduces the likelihood of that happening.
As it stands, there's no great likelihood of that happening unless someone makes it happen. Since mod_fcgid has been donated to apache, that's now the focus of fastcgi work among the devs. My best suggestions: (1) Enter a report in bugzilla (2) If you really want proxy_fcgi and not mod_fcgid, tell us what you need that the one offers but the other doesn't.For (2), what would be again the right place to report?
dev@httpd.
The prime reason for me to use mod_proxy_fcgi is that mod_fcgid doesn't offer a possibility to specify an externally spawned FCGI process on a remote host. The other reason is that I need the env-var interpolation respectivly mod_rewrite-capabilities to change the target FCGI server depening on request data (e.g. forward a well-known user to his "home" server). mod_proxy_fcgi is perfect for me, because it's small, doesn't come with a process manager and allows dynamic configuration of the target server.
Now that makes sense - and indeed ties into something I'm trying to work towards (but don't expect anything exciting anytime soon). Posting something based on that to dev@ might be more productive than a long/rambling report that you have to read in detail before confirming it looks like a bug (as opposed to a user error).
If I missed that features in mod_fcgid, I'd be glad if you could let me know. There is still mod_fastcgi on my mind, but I'd have to modify it to work for my purpose and it's code is horrible in terms that it still has support for Apache 1.x.
If mod_fastcgi has capabilities that are missing in mod_fcgid and that you have a use for, that may be worth turning into a feature request. -- Nick Kew --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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