Re: [Cppcms-users] fastcgi setup and file server

[Artyom <art...@ya...>]

Hello,

> 
> Hello,
> 
> What is the proper way to set up cppcms to run with  fastcgi?
> 

Every CGI/FastCGI/SCGI application regardless if they are CppCMS based or not
are run by web server and defined by special "script" path. For example
for PHP it may be /foo/bar.php for binary cgi scripts it would be
/cgi-bin/bar.cgi

So you need to provide a web server a path to run CGI application from.

Recommendation choose something like

   /your_app_name

Next step is to decide whether web server is responsible on starting
your CppCMS application or you start your CppCMS application on your
own and just tell web server how to connect (apache, lighttpd support
both first and second case, nginx just second case).

If you want to know how to configure a web server in second case
the simplest way - use cppcms_run utility, it creates a configuration
file you should be based on.

It is very useful tool to run CppCMS applications against web server for 
debugging.

For example in case of apache external start you may need something like that:

        FastCgiIpcDir some/ipc/directory/generally/given/in/your/fastcgi/mod
        FastCgiExternalServer /path/to/your/myapp.fcgi -socket 
/tmp/cppcms_socket

        ScriptAliasMatch ^/your_app_name(.*)$ /path/to/your/myapp.fcgi\$1
        AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi

And then pass:

        "api" : "fastcgi" , "socket" : "/tmp/cppcms_socket"

For case of apache staring the service you need to use 
        FastCgiServer instead of external one

and set server.socket = "stdin" see to take the socket from web server:

 <http://art-blog.no-ip.info/wikipp/en/page/cppcms_1x_config#service.socket>

(Actually I had forgot to add the stdin option to documentation)

See also reference: <http://www.fastcgi.com/mod_fastcgi/docs/mod_fastcgi.html>

This reminds me that I need a section in wiki on how to configure CppCMS with 
various
web servers.

> I have libapache2-mod-fastcgi installed.
> 
> 
> The problem with  "api":"http" is that I have not found a way to configure it 
>so 
>
> that:
>
> 1-  we can serve file (file_server = true, to serve .css files, etc).
> 2- there is  no prefix (from the script) at the beginning of the URL.
>
> In the 'mb'  example, all the url's are prefixed like this:
>     url =  request().script_name()+"/tree/"+lexical_cast<string>(id);
> where my  code  simply does the equivalent of:
>     url =  "/tree/"+lexical_cast<string>(id);
> 
> http://art-blog.no-ip.info/wikipp/en/page/cppcms_1x_config
> I  tried several combinations  of:
> service.api
> http.script
> file_server.enable
> file_server.document_root
> but  the only way I managed to make it work is when all the URL are prefixed 
> with the script  name.
> 

Yes, fastcgi applications require some script name. And this is what you will 
have with every 

web server. You may probably use some URL rewriting or use several script names
to get different behavior. 

In any case iternal server supports only this kind of behavior.

Regards,

   Artyom