Dear Monks:

I need help deploying a catalyst app on a shared host. I have tried the methods written up at:

  1. Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::SharedHosting
  2. http://blog.johngoulah.com/2009/08/deploying-catalyst-shared-hosting/
  3. http://forums.hostgator.com/catalyst-framework-hostgator-shared-hosting-t68761.html

The host runs apache and has Mod FastCGI installed. (EDIT: It's actually mod_fcgid.) Apache has ExecCGI and FollowSymLinks enabled. It does not have modRuid enabled.

The closest I have gotten is following the instructions in the first link -- the Catalyst Manual. (I had to change ln -s ~/lib/MyApp/script script to ln -s ~/MyApp/script script). As suggested, I put a .htaccess file into public_html. Here's what it looks like, ~/public_html/.htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?script/myapp_fastcgi.pl
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ script/myapp_fastcgi.pl/$1 [PT,L]

[download]

With this config, when I go to mydomain.com, I get a server error. The log shows that myapp_fastcgi.pl starts, loads the app, but breaks with this message:

AH01215: STDIN is not a socket: specify a listen location at /usr/loca
+l/share/perl5/Plack/Handler/FCGI.pm line 57.: /home/mydomain/public_h
+tml/script/myapp_fastcgi.pl

[download]

The only lead I have is that adding AddHandler fcgid-script .pl to ~/public_html/.htaccess results in a not found error, The requested URL /script/myapp_fastcgi.pl/ was not found on this server. I don't know whether that's actually a lead or not. The app loads fine on the server; there are no missing modules, etc.

I'm completely stumped. I have asked on #catalyst several times but without success. I would very, very grateful for any help.

In reply to Deploying Catalyst App On Shared Server by varanasi

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