Chris Withers wrote with rewrite rules, such as?
Going back two years here, I can't recall the details, but I do remember it sometimes "just didn't work" with the rewrite rules and basic auth and sometimes even cookies). Getting it working on all the magic different things we needed was a total PITA.
the poor error handling, such as?
When the site behind was down, there was not a lot you could do about the errors.
fastcgi is much much more robust for us. ...maybe meaning it was easier to set up _for you_.
No, I said "robust". I also said "for us", yes.
Did you do a speed comparison? I would be interested if someoen had since it would be nice to know whether my beliefs about FastCGI are justified...
No. I can't see that either FCGI or ProxyPass are going to be the bottleneck in any publishing situation. I have more than enough to do without benchmarking every single bit of the system :P Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.