Problems with FastCGI in 4.4-beta1

[Frank Warmerdam]

Jean-Francois Doyon wrote:
> Frank,
>
> Well, first of all, I'm actually mostly interested in the regular CGI mode,
> so that's a buzz kill for me :)

JF,

Well, I do intend to get regular cgi mode going too, though that is unfunded.

> I'll keep it in mind though, might still be nice for WMS, though in our case
> the CGI version gets far heavier use than our WMS.
>
> My test was calling mapserv without any parameters, just for testing,
> especting the standard "no query set" error message.
>
> The FastCGI compiled version works just fine in standard CGI mode.

That is reassuring.

> I too was rather intrigued by the fact that the process seemed to keep dying
> unexpectedly, something rather hard to track down.
>
> Although, now that you mention the WMS thing, could it be that the simple
> fact that I was using non WMS requests was causing problem.
>
> Under your current implementation, what is the expected behavior if a
> non-WMS request comes in through FastCGI ?

Umm, not really though through carefully?

> I'll try a more complex configuration along the lines of what Paul suggested
> in the mean time.
>
> Honestly I don't NEED it, but I'm always glad to get the extra performance
> anywhere I can, and this should normally be pretty straightforward to setup
> :P

You might want to try it out in WMS mode, but hold off on regular mapserv
cgi mode till I do some work and testing in that area.

Best regards,
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