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POPerl CGI or CGI::Fast under Apache 2.2 on Debian Lenny
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copied!<p>I have 2 different web servers on a Debian Lenny machine. One is running FastCGI (TRAC) and the other web server is running PHP and some CGI scripts. So I have currently the 2 Apache2 modules enabled (cgi and fcgi) and the 2 vhosts setup accordingly. I have no other particular interest for these both modules running at the same time.</p> <p>So I want to keep ONLY Apache fastcgi module running as it looks to be the more efficient one.</p> <p>Could you pls confirm the following assessments to be right or correct ?<br> 1- I will have nothing to do/change for the TRAC site (already running fcgi)<br> 2- I will have to tune the other web server vhost to be set with an handler to fastcgi scripts<br> 3- I will have to change only the perl modules from "use CGI" to "use CGI::Fast"<br> 4- I will be able to keep the rest of the perl existing CGI scripts w/o other changes<br> 5- I do not need to use CGI::Apache but CGI::FastCGI (i/o the current CGI module) in the web server scripts </p> <p>I hope my point is clear as it's all a bit foreign to me ... </p> <p>Thx</p> <p><strong>EDIT</strong>:<br> thx for the hints to Naveed and J-16,<br> Here is what I did to get it working if it can help others : </p> <ul> <li><p>hum, installed CGI::Fast with CPAN, then it works better..<br> On Debian with libperl already installed</p> <pre><code>perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan> install CGI::Fast </code></pre></li> <li><p>changed filename from *.cgi to *.fcgi,</p></li> <li>included the fastcgi while loop as adviced below by Naveed,</li> <li>setup the apache concerned vhost with the right handler for fastcgi (See <a href="http://www.fastcgi.com/mod_fastcgi/docs/mod_fastcgi.html" rel="nofollow">fastcgi doc</a>)</li> <li>enabled the Apache fastcgi module (a2enmod fastcgi) and disabled the cgi module,</li> <li>checked the fastcgi.conf file in the Apache settings,</li> <li>restarted Apache,</li> <li>checked the fastcgi running as an Apache sub process (ps -afx),</li> <li>fixed some script issues, already in.. but newly appearing when running fastcgi, as adviced (errors detected by checking the Apache logs),</li> <li><p><strong>EDIT</strong>: adapted the file upload code as the initial script did not work anymore (still don't understand why), so I had to replace the while loop by a such one:</p> <pre><code>open(FILE,">$upload_dir/$file_name") while ($bytes_count = read($file_query,$buffer,2096)) { $size += $bytes_count; print FILE $buffer; } close(FILE); </code></pre></li> <li><p>done.</p></li> </ul> <p>World is not yet perfect but it finally works.</p>

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