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diff --git a/docs/fastcgi.txt b/docs/fastcgi.txt index 5ecaac8666..119688096f 100644 --- a/docs/fastcgi.txt +++ b/docs/fastcgi.txt @@ -1,11 +1,17 @@ -============================== -How to use Django with FastCGI -============================== +=========================================== +How to use Django with FastCGI, SCGI or AJP +=========================================== Although the `current preferred setup`_ for running Django is Apache_ with -`mod_python`_, many people use shared hosting, on which FastCGI is the only -viable option. In some setups, FastCGI also allows better security -- and, -possibly, better performance -- than mod_python. +`mod_python`_, many people use shared hosting, on which protocols such as +FastCGI, SCGI or AJP are the only viable options. In some setups, these protocols +also allow better security -- and, possibly, better performance -- than mod_python. + +.. admonition:: Note + + This document primarily focuses on FastCGI. Other protocols, such as SCGI + and AJP, are also supported, through the ``flup`` Python package. See the + "Protocols" section below for specifics about SCGI and AJP. Essentially, FastCGI is an efficient way of letting an external application serve pages to a Web server. The Web server delegates the incoming Web requests @@ -74,10 +80,26 @@ your ``manage.py`` is), and then run ``manage.py`` with the ``runfcgi`` option:: If you specify ``help`` as the only option after ``runfcgi``, it'll display a list of all the available options. -You'll need to specify either a ``socket`` or both ``host`` and ``port``. Then, -when you set up your Web server, you'll just need to point it at the host/port +You'll need to specify either a ``socket``, ``protocol`` or both ``host`` and ``port``. +Then, when you set up your Web server, you'll just need to point it at the host/port or socket you specified when starting the FastCGI server. +Protocols +--------- + +Django supports all the protocols that flup_ does, namely fastcgi_, `SCGI`_ and +`AJP1.3`_ (the Apache JServ Protocol, version 1.3). Select your preferred +protocol by using the ``protocol=<protocol_name>`` option with +``./manage.py runfcgi`` -- where ``<protocol_name>`` may be one of: ``fcgi`` +(the default), ``scgi`` or ``ajp``. For example:: + + ./manage.py runfcgi --protocol=scgi + +.. _flup: http://www.saddi.com/software/flup/ +.. _fastcgi: http://www.fastcgi.com/ +.. _SCGI: http://python.ca/scgi/protocol.txt +.. _AJP1.3: http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/ajp/ajpv13a.html + Examples -------- |