CGI::Ap...:FastCGI(3)

💖 CGI::Application::FastCGI 💖

okay so bestie, this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and the manual is called CGI::Ap...:FastCGI(3). the whole vibe? running your CGI::Application-based cgi programs under FastCGI without breaking a sweat. no cap. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

CGI::Application::FastCGI — it's literally for using CGI::Application under FastCGI. that's the whole gig, and it ate. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

okay so here's how you do it, fr fr:

# In "WebApp.pm"...
package WebApp;
use base qw(CGI::Application::FastCGI);
sub setup {
  ...
}
1;

# In "webapp.fcgi"...
use WebApp;
my $webapp = WebApp->new;
$webapp->run;

see how it's giving effortless? 🎀 that's the point.

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🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

so like, instead of inheriting from plain CGI::Application, you inherit from this module. that's it. that's the switch. and then boom — your cgi programs that are built on CGI::Application get to run under FastCGI. main character energy, honestly. 👑

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⚠️ NOTES ⚠️

okay bestie, this part is important, don't skip it, i'm begging 😭

• cgiapp_init() gets called only once during the lifecycle of FastCGI.
• setup() also gets called only once.
• so like… you should not be doing magical things in 'setup'. periodt. 🚫✨
• if you want something to happen for every REQUESTS, you gotta put that logic in cgiapp_prerun() instead. that's the move. 🔥

ngl this is the kind of thing that will absolutely bite you if you skim it. the once-only calls are real, and your per-request logic belongs in cgiapp_prerun(), not setup(). 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• CGI::Application
• FCGI

go read those too, they're iconic, iykyk. 📚💜

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Naoya Ito <naoya@naoya.dyndns.org>

and the legal tea, verbatim: this library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. slay. 💖

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and that's the whole page, bestie! 🎀 this one came from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and it's the CGI::Ap...:FastCGI(3) manual page — thanks for reading the whole thing, you're literally the best 🫶✨🌸