It appears most discussions about FastCGI here are frozen from nearly a decade ago and so as someone who just decided to start making use of it, I'm wondering if I am making a mistake with unforeseen security or compatibility issues ahead of me. Here are a few things that prompted my concern:
- It appears the libraries for it such as the Perl CPAN module, have not been updated in years.
- The Perl module complains about UTF-8 output years after that became normal and the lack of updates don't seem to offer a lot of hope for a fix.
- I also noted that Mojolicious spun off its FastCGI support some years ago for not meeting the quality standards of the codebase. I don't presently use Mojolicious, but I found that notable.
Have a chosen a dead end by finally waking up to FastCGI this year?
I have clients who use PHP, so I'm interested in PHP support, but I'm primarily interested in if there is a better future-oriented alternative to use that supports Perl, which is the language I use for most of the CGI programs on the server. Maybe I'm overthinking it and FastCGI will be just fine. So far, I'm using mod_fcgid
with Apache, although my goal is to get it running directly with Nginx, which I'm already using to serve static content.