Dear Monks,

I made this small Catalyst app to send JSON data to some client. It is a very simple app and just has one controller (its just a test app, don't bite me for using just one controller!). I'm trying to deploy it on an Apache2 server with fastCGI. I referred this, this and this docs.

In my apache2.conf file, I appended the following:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.testjson.com
    DocumentRoot /home/code-ninja/Projects/Perl/testJSON
    <Directory /home/code-ninja/Projects/Perl/testJSON>
            Options +ExecCGI
    </Directory>
    <Files testjson_fastcgi.pl>
            SetHandler fastcgi-script
    </Files>
</VirtualHost>

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But I'm unable to deploy the app as I dreamed I would.

Also, I read that I can use the in-built server as a full-fledged server using Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Prefork but I can't make it work. :-(

When I say CATALYST_ENGINE="HTTP::Prefork" myapp_server.pl it complains about missing HTTP::Prefork package. I tried installing it from CPAN but for some reason, it fails during the tests.

I'd be really grateful if some Monk would point me to a good guide elucidating the deployment process. I have configured Apache2 during my RHCE course I took a few years back so I know the jargons quite well. *noviceShowOffSmile*

In reply to Deploy Catalyst application. by code-ninja

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