Re: no webserver(apache)? no problem! test .cgi with Plack/plackup

in reply to no webserver(apache)? no problem! test .cgi with Plack/plackup

++ I'm commenting mostly just to bump this excellent piece of advice.

Since port is rarely important and I like to use this idiom in addition to running a traditional webserver on port 80, I'd shorten it to use the default port 5000–

plackup -L Shotgun -MPlack::App::WrapCGI -e "Plack::App::WrapCGI->new(script => shift)" [cgi]

–which lends itself to an alias–

alias pcgi='plackup -Ilib -L Shotgun -MPlack::App::WrapCGI -e "Plack::
+App::WrapCGI->new(script => shift)"'
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Update: anonymous monk that replied is quite correct. The code, as is, is broken.

Update: And a million years later... alias works in bash, at least.

alias pcgi='plackup -L Shotgun -MPlack::App::WrapCGI -e "Plack::App::W
+rapCGI->new(script => \$ARGV[0])"'

pcgi some.cgi
HTTP::Server::PSGI: Accepting connections at http://0:5000/
...
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