On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Michael Van Canneyt < mich...@freepascal.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, Marco van de Voort wrote: > >> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said: >> >>> Am I wrong thinking, that using "proxy FCGI" projects are a lot easier to >>>> manage, anyway, as here you can use normal debugging means (e.g. >>>> Lazarus) ? >>>> >>> >>> Not really. >>> >> >> On windows they must be service programs, which are an >>> absolute horror to debug. >>> >> >> Stability wise it is best, but depending on technology this is not a hard >> _must_. The ISAPI framework that I once used allowed the main application >> to be both app and service, and for debugging purposes one used the >> application form. >> > > I know. My own proxy fastcgi apps worked like that. > > But if you are on a headless server, then a windows service is the only > really viable way. > > You can start messing with run entries in the registry, but the problem > remains the same: the app must be running when the webserver starts. Best > way to achieve that is a service. > > The alternative is to let the webserver control the program instances. > And except for debugging purposes, this is still the best approach IMHO.
But it is very easy to solve it. In my case, when I talk about debug an application running, it isn't about debug the final executable itself, but its implementation. If I start my EXE via Apache, it is impossible to debug it. Using proxy, I can add another server in my HTTP server (nginx allows to add more than one), something like "fcgi_pass <IP of my development machine>/dev/myapp", so I open my browser and access the URL of the server that is running publicly (probably on a machine in the clouds), and this server will call the application running here on my PC. I know my local application will be a replica of the one already published, taking the time/commits from the GIT log. -- Silvio Clécio My public projects - github.com/silvioprog
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