Re: FastCGI and CGI Library -> Build FastCGI and Apache

You should be able to make mod_fastcgi non-shared by configuring apache 
with this option:

  --disable-shared=NAME  disable build of Module named 'NAME' as a DSO

However, you could also run your app as an external fastcgi process and 
include a small process manager in your app.

There is a perl FCGI::ProcManager that you could use pretty easily like 
this:

use FCGI::ProcManager;
my $proc_manager = FCGI::ProcManager->new({ n_processes => 10 });
$proc_manager->pm_manage();
exec ('your fcgi app');

Jack wrote:
> One thing to correct: as Bryan pointed out, the process
> manager is a separate process. My guess is that because
> fcgi uses pipe when the fcgi apps are running locally,
> the processes (process manager and apps) are running as
> children of the apache process and started by mod_fastcgi.so
> I get very nervous when I hear .so and would suspect the
> library wouldn't work. And it didn't :( So, building
> mod_fastcgi into Apache to get rid of any .so in the chain
> is my last resort ...
> 
> Sunday, April 24, 2005, 12:16:02 AM, you wrote:
> 
> J> Hello Bryan,
> 
> J> Thanks for the reply. No, I am not trying to build my app into
> J> Apache. I'm trying to build mod_fastcgi into Apache. The reason
> J> is that I'm using this strange library (.a) in my fcgi app and
> J> I don't have source code for it. This library seem to hate .so.
> J> If it's linked to a stand-alone single threaded app, it works
> J> just fine. If it's linked to a .so file, it'll fail to initialize.
> J> It seems to fail too if it's in the process space of a .so.
> J> In my case, the process manager and the application seem to
> J> be in the same process as mod_fastcgi.so and this could be
> J> the problem. So, I'm trying to build mod_fastcgi into Apache
> J> to remove the .so from the picture.
> 
> J> My application still outputs to the web - that's how I know
> J> there was a problem: the output includes error return code
> J> of the initialization function of the library.
> J> However, nothing is put in the error log of Apache.
> 
> 
> 
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