=head1 FastCGI Deployment
-FastCGI is a high-performance extension to CGI. It is suitable
-for production environments.
+FastCGI is a high-performance extension to CGI. It is suitable for production
+environments, and is the standard method for deploying Catalyst in shared
+hosting environments.
=head2 Pros
Since your app is not running inside of Apache, the faster mpm_worker module
can be used without worrying about the thread safety of your application.
+=head3 Widely supported.
+
+FastCGI is compatible with a lot more server implementations than Apache.
+
=head2 Cons
You may have to disable mod_deflate. If you experience page hangs with
With FastCGI, there are more things to monitor and more processes running
than when using mod_perl.
-XXX - FIXME, note not just apache!
-
=head2 Standalone FastCGI Server
In server mode the application runs as a standalone server and accepts
See below for the specific web server configurations for using the external
server.
+=head1 WEB SERVERS
+
+Any web server which supports FastCGI should work with Catalyst. Configuration
+recipies for well-known web servers are linked below, and we would welcome
+contributions from people deploying Catalyst against other web servers.
+
+=head2 Apache
+
+L<Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::Apache::FastCGI>
+
+=head2 nginx
+
+L<Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::nginx::FastCGI>
+
+=head2 lighttpd
+
+L<Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::lighttpd::FastCGI>
+
+=head2 Microsoft IIS
+
+L<Catalyst::Manual::Deployment::IIS::FastCGI>
+
=head1 AUTHORS
Catalyst Contributors, see Catalyst.pm