[Lazarus] GUI development for web UI

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Marcos Douglas wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:23 AM,  <michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Marcos Douglas wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Michael Van Canneyt
>>> <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Marcos Douglas wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Michael Van Canneyt
>>>>> <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Currently we're deploying a webapp that uses fpweb, FastCGI and runs as
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> windows service app. Although the latter is more of a necessity than a
>>>>>> voluntary choice.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The fastcgi approach makes it easy to debug.
>>>>>
>>>>> FastCGI or CGI gateway?
>>>>
>>>> FastCGI.
>>>>
>>>> But using the gateway shouldn't make any difference: you debug the
>>>> fastcgi,
>>>> not the gateway :-)
>>>
>>> But if you want to update the application you will have to leave the
>>> application unavailable.
>>> With CGI gateway you can redirect the flow to another server.
>>
>> In my opinion that is pointless and serves no useful purpose except maybe in
>> a few trivial cases.
>>
>> The reason you use FastCGI is that you can keep things in
>> memory during the session of the user. (DB connection, transactions and
>> possibly complete form states)
>>
>> By switching to another FastCGI instance, you loose all this session
>> information: you get the same effect as stopping and restarting fastCGI,
>> except maybe a couple of failed requests. It's not worth the overhead IMHO.
>
> You rigth about the overhead...
> And why you said: "(for the record, I use module mod_fastcgi, not the
> mod_fcgid module)"
> There are many differences between them?

The can do the same thing:
By default, a fastcgi process is started by the webserver, passing it the
socket on which it should listen.

But mod_fastcgi additionally allows you to specify that the fastcgi process is
already running, and that no process should be started. The process can run
on the same or on another machine as the Webserver:

   FastCgiExternalServer D:/counte/verbruik/server -host 127.0.0.1:2015 -idle-timeout 30 -flush

This is very convenient, because you can start the fastcgi process in the
debugger, just as any normal process. Or, the fastCGI process can be a
windows service.

Other than that, the configuration option names are different.

My FastCGI process is running as a windows service.

Michael.