Enable IBM HTTP Server for FastCGI applications
FastCGI applications use TCP or UNIX sockets to communicate with the Web server. This scalable architecture enables applications to run on the same platform as the Web server, or on many machines scattered across an enterprise network.
Overview
We can port FastCGI applications to other Web server platforms. Most popular Web servers support FastCGI directly, or through commercial extensions.
FastCGI applications run fast because of their persistency. These applications require no per-request startup and initialization overhead. This persistency enables the development of applications, otherwise impractical within the CGI paradigm, like a huge Perl script, or an application requiring a connection to one or more databases.
Sub-topics
Learn about FastCGI
Example of mod_fastcgi configuration
FastCGI directives