nginx + .cgi/perl scripts...

[mike]

Maybe I should re-iterate this:

I would prefer not to have FastCGI needed. So - is there a simple way
to get nginx to execute .cgi / .pl / etc perl scripts itself? or some
easy hack like that?

On 7/1/08, Cliff Wells <cliff at develix.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 14:02 -0700, mike wrote:
> > This seems a bit overkill:
> > http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxSimpleCGI
> >
> > Not to mention it's not persistent. Anyone have any better tools to
> > keep Perl-capable fastcgi engines running?
>
> That page has nothing to do with running Perl *FastCGI* scripts.  It's a
> hack to allow *CGI* scripts to run as FastCGI (which is why it's not
> persistent... CGI scripts don't expect to be persistent).
>
> Cliff
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