05-27-2001
You get started into UNIX by getting an Intel platform (what ever speed and size you can afford); get a CDROM of a UNIX distro such as Linux or BSD; follow the instructions and GO!
This above approach costs very little money and does not require an Internet connection to download software distributions. From there, you can go to a more network-centric download approach.
The second approach is to go out and get a beginners UNIX admin job; but you will do better if you have much experience with home servers running your own web site or mail site.
As for what you can do, you can do any server side application from web servers, file servers, mail servers, application servers, databases, test controllers, lab gear etc. You can also do graphical desktop applications; but Windows tends to outshine in that area.
Most businesses and people find that UNIX make the best back-end servers and Windows based systems make the best common-user desktop. Both have advantages and disadvantages.
For very sophisticated and complex graphical CAD programs and other visualization (not your typical work processors, spreadsheets, etc.) UNIX makes some very suburb systems!
Last edited by Neo; 05-27-2001 at 11:48 AM..
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catalyst::manual::deployment::fastcgi
Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::FastCGI(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::FastCGI(3pm)
NAME
Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::FastCGI - Deploying Catalyst with FastCGI
FastCGI Deployment
FastCGI is a high-performance extension to CGI. It is suitable for production environments, and is the standard method for deploying
Catalyst in shared hosting environments.
Pros
Speed
FastCGI performs equally as well as mod_perl. Don't let the 'CGI' fool you; your app runs as multiple persistent processes ready to
receive connections from the web server.
App Server
When using external FastCGI servers, your application runs as a standalone application server. It may be restarted independently from the
web server. This allows for a more robust environment and faster reload times when pushing new app changes. The frontend server can even
be configured to display a friendly "down for maintenance" page while the application is restarting.
Load-balancing
You can launch your application on multiple backend servers and allow the frontend web server to perform load-balancing among all of them.
And of course, if one goes down, your app continues to run.
Multiple versions of the same app
Each FastCGI application is a separate process, so you can run different versions of the same app on a single server.
Can run with threaded Apache
Since your app is not running inside of Apache, the faster mpm_worker module can be used without worrying about the thread safety of your
application.
Widely supported.
FastCGI is compatible with many server implementations, not just Apache.
Cons
You may have to disable mod_deflate. If you experience page hangs with mod_fastcgi then remove deflate.load and deflate.conf from
mods-enabled/
More complex environment
With FastCGI, there are more things to monitor and more processes running than when using mod_perl.
Standalone FastCGI Server
In server mode the application runs as a standalone server and accepts connections from a web server. The application can be on the same
machine as the web server, on a remote machine, or even on multiple remote machines. Advantages of this method include running the
Catalyst application as a different user than the web server, and the ability to set up a scalable server farm.
To start your application in server mode, install the FCGI::ProcManager module and then use the included fastcgi.pl script.
$ script/myapp_fastcgi.pl -l /tmp/myapp.socket -n 5
Command line options for fastcgi.pl include:
-d -daemon Daemonize the server.
-p -pidfile Write a pidfile with the pid of the process manager.
-l -listen Listen on a socket path, hostname:port, or :port.
-n -nproc The number of processes started to handle requests.
See below for the specific web server configurations for using the external server.
WEB SERVERS
Any web server which supports FastCGI should work with Catalyst. Configuration recipies for well-known web servers are linked below, and we
would welcome contributions from people deploying Catalyst on other web servers.
Apache
Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::Apache::FastCGI
nginx
Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::nginx::FastCGI
lighttpd
Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::lighttpd::FastCGI
Microsoft IIS
Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::IIS::FastCGI
AUTHORS
Catalyst Contributors, see Catalyst.pm
COPYRIGHT
This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.14.2 2012-01-20 Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::FastCGI(3pm)