Aaah; I misunderstood / read that as you were trying to make do without all of the bits. In that case then Mojolicious and I'm sure the other frameworks like Dancer2 usually come with their own http server implementations (Plack mentioned above too) which will run your application (and to some degree also serve flat files) directly which would eliminate the need to run apache (or lighttpd or . . .) with fastcgi. That might be another route to look into.