Debugging FastCGI

I've been having good success just dumping everything to syslog, which is obviously a unix construct but I have the log file viewer open and just run it, and it works out to be faster for me than even doing C# / ASP.NET debugging and setting breakpoints. My site is up at http://www.mightyware.com , and its a nutty mix of stuff, but the whole thing is a fastcgi app with all the .bhs pages are just text files filtered by the fastcgi. Works pretty well. I debug it on my ubuntu box and then deploy it up to my linode and I just love it.

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1. The right way to debug a FastCGI app (Wes Widner)

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From: Wes Widner <[email protected] >

Subject: [FASTCGI] The right way to debug a FastCGI app

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Hello,

I've recently written an application using the FastCGI framework (in C) and

I've been very impressed with the speed it offers. However when I went to

write an extension to my application I've run into some difficulties

debugging my code so I wanted to see if anyone here had a better idea of how

to go about debugging a FastCGI application.

Here is what I am attempting to do thus far:

Run cgi-fcgi through gdb: gdb cgi-fcgi

Then run my fastcgi application directly: (gdb) r -start -connect

127.0.0.1:9005 ./myapp.fcgi 1

This produces the output:

Starting program: /usr/bin/cgi-fcgi -start -connect 127.0.0.1:9005

./*myapp*.fcgi

1

[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

Program exited normally.

Is this the right approach? If so, what am I doing wrong? If not, what is

the best way to go about debugging my application?

Thanks in advance,

-Wes

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