I've been working for days trying to get a Catalyst-based Perl application running under FastCGI/IIS. So far, it seems like a total black box. I know it is possible, as a trivial FCGI script works OK - the question is: all the error I ever get, no matter what else I try, is:
Error Details:
- The FastCGI process exited unexpectedly
- Error Number: -2147467259 (0x80004005).
- Error Description: Unspecified error
This is not particularly helpful. There are about a million possible problems, many but not all involving permissions. The same app works fine under CGI, but we really need the performance of FastCGI - PerlIS is not an option as we need better caching than just caching the interpreter, and ActivePerl has unresolved memory leaks too. We have a good Perl, and all works well until we try to get it working with IIS. Also, the Catalyst FastCGI script appears to work just fine under the command line.
What I could really use is some tricks to get some kind of error message out of FastCGI. Any kind of error message other than the above will do. Is there any way of persuading IIS to give me a bit more feedback? We're using IIS6, Perl 5.10 (several different builds, same problems). The framework is Catalyst and I know this is likely an issue - but I cannot find how without some debugging feedback of some kind.
Any help would be very welcome. FastCGI seems perfect in principle, but deployment is currently a non-starter