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Some applications, such as those written in Ruby for use in the Ruby on Rails environment, can be optimized for use with FastCGI. Using FastCGI with your application allows the application to respond quicker and serve information faster than a regular CGI program by accessing your code through a persistant service instead of repeatedly having to start and stop your program. Only programs that were written to support FastCGI are compatable with it; you cannot use FastCGI with a regular Perl script that has not been appropriately updated to include FastCGI support. Ruby on Rails applications include FastCGI support built in, but you will need to enable this. Jumpline.com provides the FastCGI ValueApp to facilitate easy installation, but cannot provide support on modifying your applications to function in the FastCGI environment.

To activate FastCGI Support:

Log in to your VDS Manager by clicking the ‘Login to VDS Manager’ link from the Products page of the Customer Manager, which is located at https://my.jumpline.com.

Click on Install & Manage on the left side of the screen

Click on the Web Development folder at the top of the page

Click on FastCGI under the Available ValueApps section on the left