Ah, Perl & CGI, now that brings back memories! It's fantastic that some of my apps I wrote using Perl are still running strong on RHEL 8/9 even though I no longer work there. The fact that an Nginx-CGI plugin exists is a perfect example of how classic, reliable standards can be paired with modern stuff. It鈥檚 a great blend of old school tech and new school. nginx-cgi plugin is all about that. The question is would you use it today given CGI is bad for High QPS/traffic/concurrency apps? (1/2)
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@nixCraft I'd probably use it. CGI seems like the simplest thing to set up and deploy for nginx and apache2 versus other options which are full blown web frameworks (like Mojolicious, Dancer2, Catalyst, etc.) or require a bit more involved setup as a less tread path (like PSGI/Plack). I'd probably consider CGI::Tiny since it doesn't try to convince anyone not to use it.
I've been fairly unconvinced by CGI.pm's own documentation that it's so bad and I shouldn't use it. 馃し
- nginx-cgi download link https://github.com/pjincz/nginx-cgi
* PS: there is also fcgiwrap for nginx to run CGI apps written in Perl or any other choice of server side programming lang https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-install-fcgiwrap-for-nginx-on-ubuntu-20-04/ (2/2)
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