Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to The future of mod_nsd and other web server support

For the AOLserver+FastCGI setup, AOLserver will be started by the user/admin/whatever, not by the web servers' FastCGI process manager.

The request path will look like this: the front-end web server (Apache, for example) gets and parses the requests, then sends it via FastCGI to AOLserver's request handling thread, from where it gets dispatched to one of the worker threads, then returned back to the web server.