IIS and FastCGI/Scripting languages/Perl/Catalyst

This is a quick overview of Catalyst and FastCGI. This assumes you've already registered the interpreter. Tested with Catalyst 5.7014 and 5.7015. Stansa in fcgiext.ini Make sure you have something like this: [Catalyst] ExePath=C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe ; The -e is important, this flag tells MyApp_fastcgi.pl to change the way it treats stderr Arguments="D:\Inetpub\www\DMApp\script\MyApp_fastcgi.pl -e" ; these three lines tell it to always let Cat handle requests. IgnoreDirectories=1 IgnoreFiles=1 IgnoreExistingFiles=1 ; these three lines you can muck with for performance/resource optimizations QueueLength=999 MaxInstances=20 InstanceMaxRequests=500 Editing MyApp_fastcgi.pl This is no longer needed now that MyApp_fastcgi.pl accepts arguments (-e) in above Some early versions (still bugged as of writing) need to have stderr mucked with in order to run on windows. You'll have to make a change to MyApp_fastcgi.pl. Change the line that says keep_stderr DMApp->run( $listen, { nproc => $nproc, pidfile => $pidfile, manager => $manager, detach => $detach, keep_stderr => $keep_stderr, } ); To 1: DMApp->run( $listen, { nproc => $nproc, pidfile => $pidfile, manager => $manager, detach => $detach, keep_stderr => 1, } );