dnotrael

Re:Ask HN: How, bottom to top, does a modern web application work? on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @12:49AM (#9889768)

Very succinct answer! Thank you. I am still a bit confused as to what interface CGI exposes? Is it a way for a programming language to take a HTTP request? As in, PHP-FastCGI is an implementation in PHP of receiving the HTTP request as data, and then calling the appropriate handler in the application?

Re:Ask HN: How, bottom to top, does a modern web application work? on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @12:45AM (#9889761)

You are my hero. This is exactly the type of answer I was looking for.

Re:Ask HN: How, bottom to top, does a modern web application work? on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @11:00PM (#9889479)

Thanks for making the distinction between the 1 and 2 web server set-ups. I actually have a DO droplet and I was looking to move the application to Nginx + FPM just for learning purposes so that tutorial is helpful. I've also read some of the other tutorials on Nginx.

Re:Ask HN: How, bottom to top, does a modern web application work? on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @10:59PM (#9889475)

This is exactly the kind of resource I was looking for. Thank you. I hope he keeps making more tutorials because I am very interested in the other things on his About page. I'm still excited to see what other answers people have.

Ask HN: How, bottom to top, does a modern web application work?

Posted by dnotrael on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @10:16PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi y'all.While refactoring a very old PHP website, I wanted to make it as portable as possible so switching providers (such as DigitalOcean to some other VPS) would be easier in the future. I came across this: http://12factor.net/port-binding, talking about exposing the web site on a port. I had always wondered why Rails was usually on Port 3000 while my local PHP website just ran at some URL....

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