Can not run app using fcgi of perl Dancer - perl

Question

I am testing to deploy the tester example of Dancer using fcgi. But it just didn't work.
I keep getting the error message:
File does not exist: /home/tester/MyApp/public/dispatch.fcgi/
However, this app can run successfully with cgi. And I have made the changes to http.conf according to dancer's deployment manual.
Can someone pointing me to some solutions or possible reasons for this error?
below is the http.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
# /srv/www.example.com is the root of your
# dancer application
DocumentRoot /home/tester/MyApp/public
ServerAdmin you#example.com
<Directory "/home/tester/MyApp/public">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
</Directory>
ScriptAlias / /home/tester/MyApp/public/dispatch.fcgi/
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/MyApp-error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/MyApp-access_log common
</VirtualHost>
Thank you

Answer 1

I don't think that ScriptAlias is what you want to be using. From the documentation...
The ScriptAlias directive has the same behavior as the Alias
directive, except that in addition it marks the target directory as
containing CGI scripts that will be processed by mod_cgi's cgi-script
handler.
Basically Apache looks for a directory called '/home/tester/MyApp/public/dispatch.fcgi/' and every file in this dir is processed through mod_cgi. In this case it can't be found since it's a regular file.
Have you tried using mod_rewrite? My httpd config for Dancer is pretty much the same as yours except I'm using mod_rewrite
DocumentRoot /home/user/src/MyApp/public
<Directory "/home/user/src/MyApp/public">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi #using fcgid instead of fastcgi
</Directory>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /dispatch.fcgi$1 [QSA,L]