The development server is a mini web server written in perl. If you
expect a low number of hits or you don't need mod_perl/FastCGI speed,
you could use the development server as the application server with a
-lightweight proxy web server at the front. However, consider using
-L<Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Prefork> for this kind of deployment instead, since
-it can better handle multiple concurrent requests without forking, or can
-prefork a set number of servers for improved performance.
+lightweight proxy web server at the front.
-=head3 Pros
+XXX - FIXME Starman!
-As this is an application server setup, the pros are the same as
-FastCGI (with the exception of speed).
-It is also:
+=head3 Pros
=head4 Simple
=head4 Start up the development server
- script/myapp_server.pl -p 8080 -k -f -pidfile=/tmp/myapp.pid
+ script/myapp_server.pl -p 8080 -k -f -pidfile=/tmp/myapp.pid
You will probably want to write an init script to handle stop/starting
the app using the pid file.