Re: Running a service as External Server

David Birnbaum <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.fastcgi.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Fabrizio Pacini wrote:

> I'm running successfully my application as a fastcgi (dynamic/static) server
> behind an Apache 2 http server. I need to run it also as an external server 
> and
> I have the following questions:
>
> 1. do I have to modify my application to run it as a fastcgi external server?

Nope.

> 2. how do I tell my application on which port/socket it has to listen when
>  running as an external fastcgi external server?

When you put in the FastCgiServer line, you need to pass the option to tell it 
what port to listen on.  You cannot do dynamic external applications with the 
Apache process manager.

> 3. can I place several instances of my application on multiple external hosts
>  and make all of them reachable from a single Apache 2 server (i.e. a single
>  access point for user's requests that then dispatched to the external 
> servers)?
> 4. if answer to point 3. is yes, is there some sort of load balancing 
> enforced by
>  fastcgi?

No, this was discussed in the past, but was never implemnted.

David.

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