Launch FastCGI process?

[jlist9]

The web server I used before actually has options for both remote and local
scenarios. For back-end process running locally, the web server can start
the processes.

On Unix servers, it will also use a Unix domain socket to communicate
with the back-end process, which is faster than a network socket.

I just thought this was very nice since I have one less thing to worry
about. Starting the web server will start the back-end processes and
stopping the web server will stop the back-end processes.

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Denis F. Latypoff <denis at gostats.ru> wrote:
> Hello jlist9,
>
> Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 3:26:24 PM, you wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>
>> My understand is that nginx doesn't launch a process, being it a CGI process
>> or FastCGI back-end server. I wonder what are the reasons behind this decision.
>> I used to use another web server that takes care of launching FastCGI processes.
>
>> The nice thing about it is that the web server checks if a backend process is
>> running. If not, it automatically starts it. This means, for whatever reason if
>> the backend process crashes, it will be re-launched. Also, the web server
>> gets to control how many back-end server processes to start, according
>> to the conf file. With this managing the processes is really easy, because
>> it's all managed by the web server.
>
>> This is a very handy feature. Any chance of having this in nginx?
>
> What if I have nginx running on server A, and many fastcgi backends
> running on servers B-Z?
>
>> Thanks,
>> Jack
>
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> Best regards,
>  Denis                            mailto:denis at gostats.ru
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