On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 14:58 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 17:33 +0100, Michael Metz wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've read a bit about fastcgi, and wondered if it might be an > > interesting solution for e.g. running php in a user-switched environment > > or running ruby-on-rails etc. > > > > But I wonder why nobody (searched on Google) seems to use CentOS with > > mod_fastcgi for Apache 2.x. > > > > And I also wonder why people actually using Apache 2.x and ruby-on-rails > > with CentOS did run a lighthttpd-fastcgi inbetween and reverse-proxying > > requests from Apache to lighthttpd to actually forward them to RoR > > running as fastcgi. > > > > Could sombody please give me a hint? > > > > > > For the record, our mirrorlist selection program uses fastcgi and > lighttpd. ---- and probably rightly so. My gather from ruby list is that mod_fastcgi broke with apache-2 and it went neglected for quite some time and now someone has picked it back up and it's modestly functional - at least for ruby (I provided a link earlier in the thread) and eventually should become a standard mod for apache again. Craig