Deploying on Lighttpd with FastCGI

While lighttpd may not be in vogue (yes, there are documented memory leak problems - although I've never run into them myself) it is fairly straight forward to wire it up to serve a Mojolicious app.

First, make sure that script/my_app has the permissions 755. Out-of-the-box it seems to have 744, or at least that was the way I found it when I looked.

Secondly, enable FastCGI in lighttpd and insert the following rules (assuming you want lighttpd to manage the FastCGI process for you - I find this handy):

$HTTP["host"] == "yourhost.com" {
    fastcgi.server = ("/" => (( 
        "bin-path" => "/path/to/script/my_app fastcgi",
        "check-local" => "disable",
        "fix-root-scriptname" => "enable",
        "port" => 1027))
    )
}

Obviously you will need to adjust yourhost.com, /path/to and perhaps the port number.