starlight - a light and pure-Perl PSGI/Plack HTTP server with pre-forks
$ starlight --workers=20 --max-reqs-per-child=100 app.psgi $ starlight --port=80 --ipv6=1 app.psgi $ starlight --port=443 --ssl=1 --ssl-key-file=file.key --ssl-cert-file=file.crt app.psgi $ starlight --socket=/tmp/starlight.sock app.psgi
Starlight is a standalone HTTP/1.1 server with keep-alive support. It uses pre-forking. It is pure-Perl implementation which doesn't require any XS package.
Starlight was started as a fork of Thrall server which is a fork of Starlet server. It has almost the same code as Thrall and Starlet and it was adapted to not use any other modules than Plack.
Starlight is created for Unix-like systems but it should also work on Windows with some limitations.
In addition to the options supported by plackup, starlight accepts following options(s).
Number of worker processes. (default: 10)
Seconds until timeout. (default: 300)
Timeout for persistent connections. (default: 2)
Max. number of requests allowed per single persistent connection. If set to one, persistent connections are disabled. (default: 1)
Max. number of requests to be handled before a worker process exits. (default: 1000)
If set, randomizes the number of requests handled by a single worker process between the value and that supplied by --max-reqs-per-chlid. (default: none)
--max-reqs-per-chlid
If set, worker processes will not be spawned more than once than every given seconds. Also, when SIGHUP is being received, no more than one worker processes will be collected every given seconds. This feature is useful for doing a "slow-restart". (default: none)
The Starlight does not synchronize its processes and it requires a small delay in main process so it doesn't consume all CPU. (default: 0.1)
Enables SSL support. The IO::Socket::SSL module is required. (default: 0)
Specifies the path to SSL key file. (default: none)
Specifies the path to SSL certificate file. (default: none)
Specifies the path to SSL CA certificate file used when verification mode is enabled. (default: none)
Sets the verification mode for the peer certificate. See "SSL_verify_mode" in IO::Socket::SSL. (default: 0)
Enables IPv6 support. The IO::Socket::IP module is required. (default: 0)
Enables UNIX socket support. The IO::Socket::UNIX module is required. The socket file have to be not yet created. The first character @ or \0 in the socket file name means that abstract socket address will be created. (default: none)
@
\0
Changes the user id or user name that the server process should switch to after binding to the port. The pid file, error log or unix socket also are created before changing privileges. This options is usually used if main process is started with root privileges beacause binding to the low-numbered (<1024) port. (default: none)
Changes the group ids or group names that the server should switch to after binding to the port. The ids or names can be separated with comma or space character. (default: none)
Changes file mode creation mask. The "umask" in perlfunc is an octal number representing disabled permissions bits for newly created files. It is usually 022 when group shouldn't have permission to write or 002 when group should have permission to write. (default: none)
022
002
Makes the process run in the background. It doesn't work (yet) in native Windows (MSWin32). (default: 0)
Specify the pid file path. Use it with -D|--daemonize option. (default: none)
-D|--daemonize
Specify the pathname of a file where the error log should be written. This enables you to still have access to the errors when using --daemonize. (default: none)
--daemonize
Suppress the message about starting a server.
Starlight, Thrall, Starlet, Starman
Perl on Windows systems (MSWin32 and cygwin) emulates "fork" in perlfunc and "waitpid" in perlfunc functions and uses threads internally. See perlfork (MSWin32) and perlcygwin (cygwin) for details and limitations.
It might be better option to use on this system the server with explicit threads implementation, i.e. Thrall.
For Cygwin the perl-libwin32 package is highly recommended, because of Win32::Process module which helps to terminate stalled worker processes.
perl-libwin32
There is a problem with Perl threads implementation which occurs on Windows systems (MSWin32). Cygwin version seems to be correct.
Some requests can fail with message:
failed to set socket to nonblocking mode:An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket.
or
Bad file descriptor at (eval 24) line 4.
This problem was introduced in Perl 5.16 and fixed in Perl 5.19.5.
See https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=119003 and https://github.com/dex4er/Thrall/issues/5 for more information about this issue.
The server fails when worker process calls "exit" in perlfunc function:
Attempt to free unreferenced scalar: SV 0x293a76c, Perl interpreter: 0x22dcc0c at lib/Plack/Handler/Starlight.pm line 140.
It means that Harakiri mode can't work and the server have to be started with --max-reqs-per-child=inf option.
--max-reqs-per-child=inf
See https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=40565 and https://github.com/dex4er/Starlight/issues/1 for more information about this issue.
If you find the bug or want to implement new features, please report it at https://github.com/dex4er/Starlight/issues
The code repository is available at http://github.com/dex4er/Starlight
Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@cpan.org>
Based on Thrall by:
Based on Starlet by:
Kazuho Oku
miyagawa
kazeburo
Some code based on Plack:
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
Some code based on Net::Server::Daemonize:
Jeremy Howard <j+daemonize@howard.fm>
Paul Seamons <paul@seamons.com>
Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 2020 Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@cpan.org>.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as perl itself.
See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/artistic.html
To install Starlight, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Starlight
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Starlight
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.