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tenox7 / wfm

Web File/Content Management Application
Apache License 2.0
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Is it possible to support fast cgi for Nginx? #42

Open maplewang opened 2 years ago

maplewang commented 2 years ago

Since Nginx support fast CGI, so would it possible to support fast cgi.

tenox7 commented 2 years ago

I will happily look in to that but not sure what the ask is. Is there particular reason why you need fastcgi support?

maplewang commented 2 years ago

1 Nginx only support fast cgi, though I can install a cgi2fcgi gateway to bridge between them. 2 fast cgi is more efficient than cgi.

tenox7 commented 2 years ago

I will happily look in to that but not sure what the ask is. Is there particular reason why you need fastcgi support?

tenox7 commented 2 years ago

Actually the statement that fastcgi is more efficient than cgi is grossly misleading. It was true in the 90s for very busy sites / applications that ran on a small number of servers, which weren't scalable. No one is really developing apps like that any more. Nginx doesn't implement regular cgi (non-fast) service because there are no new cgi based applications made any more so why waste time implementing this. WFM was initially written in 90s specifically for Apache.

It would be very very very hard to add FastCGI support to the existing WFM application, as is. It would be almost a complete rewrite.

However so happens I'm actually rewriting WFM as a modern stand alone web app with it's own listener/server, and even auto cert manager. You can see it when you switch to "Go" branch under branches in Github. It's still not 100% complete but getting there. I already run it everywhere where I use WFM but it doesn't have all features of the previous version yet.

FastCGI support is possible in the new upcoming version, not the legacy one.

tenox7 commented 3 months ago

added support to head master

it would be cool if you could test it and let me know

thank you!