C++ FastCGI application template

The template I use for building FastCGI applications.

Why?

I wanted a template for FastCGI applications, couldn't find one. Made one and figured I might as well make it public for anyone else who wants to make C++ FastCGI applications.

Dependencies

• Boost
• CMake
• spawn-fcgi

Submodules

You'll need to init submodules to get the FastCGI library: git submodules init

Building

Starting inside the pulled repo:

1. mkdir build
2. cd build
3. cmake ..
4. make

Editing

The project files you want to edit start at src/web/main.cpp and src/web/main.h

Main.in

Main.in is a init.d template, it generates automatically for you.

Data folder

Data folder is anything the fastcgi application may want to reference. It is copied into into the output folder as data/.

Where is the build?

build/src/bin/. You'll want everything in that directory, including the data subfolder if you are using the data folder.

How do I test my code?

Use spawn-fcgi to create a fastcgi instance, then tell nginx or apache to send queries to the resulting socket. Unfortunately I don't have a solution to test code without doing this yet.

Questions?

Feel free to put a question in the issue tracker.

Broken?

This is tested on Debian Stable.
Unless I archive this repo, I am using it in production. I should know if it breaks and release a fix soon. If not, feel free to open a issue.

Contributions

Contributions are welcome and encouraged. I don't really know what I am doing so improvemenets are greatly appreciated.
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