Nginx CGI

Patrick_Lim · August 10, 2013, 4:25am

Hi, I know some of you are successfully using Nginx as a reverse-proxy to run one or more copies of your web-apps in standalone mode. Has anyone been able to run apps in CGI mode? When I tried some time back it didn’t work and I don’t have the knowledge to work out if it is doable or if there is a fundamental issue preventing it. Thanks.

Patrick_Lim · August 11, 2013, 1:48pm

Thanks Dave. I’ll do some research on using Nginx with WE standalone. I remember that there were some using postings in the past.

Jim_Cramer · August 15, 2013, 4:52am

I have a WE app, running in CGI mode (because i require https) on Amazon EC2 behind a load balancer with no problems whatsoever. Can you explain the CGI issue you are having?

Patrick_Lim · August 15, 2013, 12:38pm

Hi Jim,

I can run my web apps in CGI mode on Apache with no problem (including https), but when I tried using Nginx as the web server the web apps don’t start up.

Are you using Nginx on your EC2 server?

Jim_Cramer · August 15, 2013, 2:30pm

Hello Patrik,

My apologies, I misunderstood you. I’m using Apache on the EC2 cluster for my CGI application.

I’ve never used Nginx, but your post prompted me to look into it further. Given the performance gains possible over Apache, I’m going to try to get it working for my app. I’ll post here if I make any progress.

Patrick_Lim · August 15, 2013, 2:51pm

No problem, Jim. I use a modest VPS and Nginx would solve the resource problems I have with Apache. I’ll try Nginx again, if only to get it running with standalone apps.

Jim_Cramer · August 21, 2013, 6:20am

Patrick,

I’ve solved my problem with Xojo standalone apps and SSL using the AWS load balancer (no nginx reverse proxy required) I’ve posted my solution at https://forum.xojo.com/4128-xojo-web-application-amazon-ec2-scaling.

Regards,

Jim

Antonis_Vakondios · August 21, 2013, 10:10am

Jim, the link is not working

Jay_Madren · August 21, 2013, 2:30pm

It’s because he posted it in the Pro channel.

Jim, could you move it to this channel?

Jason_Parsley · August 21, 2013, 2:49pm

I’ve moved it to the Web channel.

Antonis_Vakondios · August 22, 2013, 1:25am

Thanks

Jim_Cramer · August 22, 2013, 6:14am

Thanks Jason for moving the thread.

The AWS load balancer will translate from https to http. If you have a ssl certificate, it’s a quick and dirty way to get around the fact that Xojo standalone WE applications don’t support ssl. I suppose this is really a reverse proxy but without the overhead of installing nginx.

Regards,

Jim