Advanced PSGI usage

LL::NG is built on Plack, so it can be used with any compatible server:

uWSGI or Node.js FastCGI server may provide the highest performance.

FastCGI server replacement

A llng-server.psgi is provided in example directory. It is designed to replace exactly FastCGI server. You can use it :

Attention

Starman, Twiggy,… are HTTP servers, not FastCGI ones!

You can also replace only a part of it to create a specialized FastCGI server (portal,…). Look at llng-server.psgi example and take the part you want to use.

There are also some other PSGI files in examples directory.

LL::NG FastCGI Server

llng-fastcgi-server can be started with the following options:

Command-line options

Environment variable

Explanation

Short

Long

-p

–pid

PID

Process PID

-u

–user

USER

Unix uid

-g

–group

GROUP

Unix gid

-n

–proc

NPROC

Number of process to launch (FCGI::ProcManager)

-s

–socket

SOCKET

Socket to listen to

-l

–listen

LISTEN

Listening address. Examples: host:port, :port, /socket/path

-f

–customFunctionsFile

CUSTOM_FUNCTIONS_FILE

File to load for custom functions

-e

–engine

ENGINE

Plack::Handler engine, default to FCGI (see below)

–plackOptions

Other options to path to Plack. Can bu multi-valued. Values must look like --key=value

See llng-fastcgi-server(1) manpage.

Some examples

FCGI with FCGI::ProcManager::Constrained

llng-fastcgi-server -u nobody -g nobody -s /run/llng.sock -n 10 -e FCGI \
                    --plackOptions=--manager=FCGI::ProcManager::Constrained

FCGI::Engine::ProcManager

llng-fastcgi-server -u nobody -g nobody -s /run/llng.sock -n 10 \
                    -e FCGI::Engine::ProcManager

Using uWSGI

You have to install uWSGI PSGI plugin. Then for example, start llng-server.psgi (simple example):

/usr/bin/uwsgi --plugins psgi --socket :5000 --uid www-data --gid www-data --psgi /usr/share/lemonldap-ng/llng-server/llng-server.psgi

You will find in LL::NG Nginx configuration files some comments that explain how to configure Nginx to use uWSGI instead of LL::NG FastCGI server.

Using Debian lemonldap-ng-uwsgi-app package

lemonldap-ng-uwsgi-app installs a uWSGI application: /etc/uwsgi/apps-available/llng-server.yaml. To enable it, link it in apps-enabled and restart your uWSGI daemon:

apt install uwsgi uwsgi-plugin-psgi
cd /etc/uwsgi/apps-enabled
ln -s ../apps-available/llng-server.yaml
service uwsgi restart

Then adapt your Nginx configuration to use this uWSGI app.

Configuration

To serve large requests with uWSGI, you could have to modify in uWSGI and/or Nginx init files several options. Example:

workers = 4
buffer-size = 65535
limit-post = 0
client_max_body_size 300M;
proxy_send_timeout 600;
proxy_read_timeout 600;
proxy_connect_timeout 600;
uwsgi_read_timeout 120;
uwsgi_send_timeout 120;

Note

Nginx natively includes support for upstream servers speaking the uwsgi protocol since version 0.8.40. To improve performances, you can switch from a TCP socket to an UDS socket by editing llng-server.yaml:

uwsgi:
        plugins: psgi
        socket: /tmp/uwsgi.sock

and adapting Nignx configuration files:

# With uWSGI
include /etc/nginx/uwsgi_params;
uwsgi_pass unix:///tmp/uwsgi.sock;
uwsgi_param LLTYPE psgi;
uwsgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$sc;
uwsgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $sc;
# Uncomment this if you use Auth SSL:
#uwsgi_param  SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_CN $ssl_client_s_dn_cn;

Protect a PSGI application

LL::NG provides Plack::Middleware::Auth::LemonldapNG that can be used to protect any PSGI application: it works exactly like a LL::NG handler. Simple example:

use Plack::Builder;

my $app   = sub { ... };
builder {
    enable "Auth::LemonldapNG";
    $app;
};

More advanced example:

use Plack::Builder;

my $app   = sub { ... };

# Optionally ($proposedResponse is the PSGI response of Lemonldap::NG handler)
sub on_reject {
    my($self,$env,$proposedResponse) = @_;
    # ...
}

builder {
    enable "Auth::LemonldapNG",
      llparams => {
        # ...
      },
      on_reject => \&on_reject;
    $app;
};