On Thu, 2015-07-16 at 08:05 -0500, Tom Browder wrote:

On Jul 16, 2015 6:56 AM, "Clive Eisen" <clive@hildebrand.co.uk> wrote:

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2. What is recommended as the best way to deploy dancer2 under Apache 2.4?

Run Dancer under starman or whatever

proxy from apache to starman one call at a time as you are happy with it When all done - remove apache and use nginx as the proxy ;-)

Hm, I have a lot invested in my Apache configuration, and I love its virtual host handling. I tried nginx some time ago and I'm not sure it can do all I need to do with client certificate handling (and the docs left a lot to be desired). But I'm open to a rethink.

The easiest way to use Dancer with Apache is via FastCGI: https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer::Deployment#Running-as-a-cgi-script-or-fast-... -under-Apache Note that for 2.4 you will need: Require all granted Instead of: Order allow,deny Allow from all There are some occasions when you might want to use Apache as a proxy to Starman instead, but for most use-cases FastCGI is easier and quicker. MST has a good little blog about deploying web apps in general: http://shadow.cat/blog/matt-s-trout/mstpan-2/ Andy

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, Andrew Beverley wrote:

The easiest way to use Dancer with Apache is via FastCGI:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer::Deployment#Running-as-a-cgi-script-or-fast-...

That link points to the RewriteEngine version. I use: ScriptAlias /myapp /path/to/myapp/bin/dispatch.fcgi Note: - dispatch.fcgi is NOT in the document root - Do NOT detach -- in dispatch.fcgi -- my $server = Plack::Handler::FCGI->new(nproc => 1, detach => 0); - Running the same code as stand-alone for testing needs some tweeks I have a scriptalias in my config.yml scriptalias: "/myapp" and a plugin that exports the DSL keyword scriptalias Loading sub-apps like this: if (setting('environment') eq 'production') { load_app 'Subapp', prefix => '/subapp'; } else { load_app 'Subapp', prefix => scriptalias . '/subapp'; } Mmm, maybe overkill... setting some $scriptalias can construct a prefix "$scriptalias/subapp" Running 'perl bin/app.pl' just works. One can use this to slowly convert /cgi-bin/subapp1.pl /cgi-bin/subapp2.pl to /myapp/subapp1 /myapp/subapp2 HTH, Henk