In previous post, I gave some background to making PHP run on Cowboy web server. In this post, I’m going to provide technical details how to run your own setup. But it’s really not complicated at all. So, let’s install, run and play with unix1/cowboy_fcgi. Prerequisites Erlang (19.0 or newer) installed on Linux use your […]

Background Cowboy is an awesome web server – it’s simple, small, fast, standards compliant, and highly scalable. It also provides easy ways to get started with RESTful web applications. Its downside is that, unlike with Apache, nginx, and other more mainstream servers, it’s only usable in Erlang (and related BEAM languages) environments. There used to […]