[fpc-pascal] Powtils Apache and Windows Seven 64bits

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Tue May 25 19:19:31 CEST 2010



On Tue, 25 May 2010, Marcos Douglas wrote:

> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Bee Jay <bee.ography at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 25 Mei 2010, at 23:37, Marcos Douglas wrote:
>>
>>> My only doubt is: why to use CGI proxy, not a FCGI?
>>
>> The main purpose of CGI proxy existence is to provide solution for some environments where FCGI setup isn't possible. The other advantages are bonuses. ;)
>>
>
> If the environment allows use FCGI, you would not CGI gateway?
>
> You said:
> "Yes, I agree with Leonardo. Another plus is you got better control
> over FCGI app if you're using CGI gateway. You're able to terminate,
> restart, redirect to other app on other machine, etc. without even
> touching the web server. If you're using plain FCGI, you have to stop
> the entire web server if you want to do something with the FCGI app."
>
> ... you can "terminate, restart, redirect to other app on other
> machine, etc. without even touching the web server" using only FCGI
> approach?

You can do this with CGI or FastCGI proxies. It does seem elaborate, though.
How often do you need to restart the FastCGI proxy ? Not often, I would
think.

Michael.



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