[Lazarus] Developing with fcl-web

[ABorka]

There is some information on what Michael mentions below here:

http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,13312.15.html

It might help a little. The linked post has some explanation on the 
different (3 ways) FCGI solutions with apache and fpc/lazarus.

AB

On 7/26/2014 05:47, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Reimar Grabowski wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> first of all, sorry if the information is out there, but I did not
>> find anything usefull to help me along.
>>
>> I need to build a server-side application (fcgi is my choice) that
>> gets send some json, processes it and communicates with a mysql
>> database, simple enough.
>> Looks like all this is perfectly doable without any problems with
>> Lazarus and fcl-web, at least the 'gets send some json and processes
>> it'-part I have already done for another project.
>> But it was a pain to develop.
>> For such kind of projects I am used to Java and development in Eclipse.
>> My major problem with Lazarus is where is my server?
>
> That depends.
>
>> In Eclipse I just configure my Tomcat or whatever other container I
>> want to use, press 'run on server' and voila, eclipse starts Tomcat
>> and my application with full logging working inside the IDE to be
>> found at 'http://localhost:8080/myapp'.
>> If I need breakpoints or single stepping, I just start the server in
>> debug mode and all is well.
>> So how do I configure Lazarus to do about the same?
>
> It depends on how you set it up.
>
>> I found some mentioning of fpembweb or lazaruswebdesign packages but
>> nothing concrete about where to find or how to use them.
>> Surely some of you guys do such kind of development with Lazarus and I
>> cannot believe that everybody runs a local apache and copies his
>> executable around after every compile (my apache is on a VM which made
>> it even more work to copy the files around and there was no debugging
>> capability to speak of).
>> So it boils down to let Lazarus run the fcgi app (can be another app
>> type if it is easy to switch it to fcgi for deployment) on an
>> (embedded) server, with logging output shown in the IDE and the option
>> to use a debugger with breakpoints and single stepping.
>
> There are 2 options:
>
> 1. Use embedded server to do the debugging; that part is easy, it's like
> running a normal executable.
>     You don't need apache for this.
>
> 2. You can run the fastcgi server if you use mod_fastcgi.so, but then
> you must use the ExternalFastCGIServer option, and configure the fastcgi
> application to listen on this port:
>
> In Apache, configure
> FastCgiExternalServer /home/michael/public_html/testht -host
> 127.0.0.1:10020 -idle-timeout 3 -flush
> Here 10020 is the port to listen on, and
> /home/michael/public_html/testht is the URL that will be the 'base' url
> for your fastcgi app.
>
>
> In that case, your fastcgi application must be configured to listen on
> the same port:
> Set
> Application.Port:=10020;
> in the project source file.
>
> Restart apache, run your executable, and do a request through the
> browser. That's it.
>
> Note that you cannot do this with the mod_fcgid module. I do believe
> that in Apache 2.4, mod_proxy can handle this situation, but I haven't
> tried yet.
>
> Michael.
>
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