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A few days later, and some aggravation regarding spawn-fcgi, nginx and the aptly named libwtfcgi fast-cgi adaptor of Wt, the page is finally live for real. Most examples for wtfcgi Wt with fcgi assume that the “application” is deployed on some sub-URL (such as http://example.com/app.wt/foo), rather than in the root (i.e., http://example.com/foo). This means that some of the largely undocumented fastcgi_params need to be adjusted.

The nginx config that ended up working for me - with the “application” deployed in the root - is:

location /dl {
    try_files $uri @appdl;
}
location / {
    try_files $uri @app;
}

location @app {
    fastcgi_pass unix:/srv/fcgi/wt-home.socket-1;
    
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        "/";
    fastcgi_param  PATH_INFO          $uri;

    # other fastcgi_param as in the examples/default configs.
}
location @appdl {
    fastcgi_pass unix:/srv/fcgi/wt-home.socket-1;
    
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        @uri;
    fastcgi_param  PATH_INFO          "";

    # other fastcgi_param as in the examples/default configs.
}

With this, static files are served by nginx itself, rather than having them take the detour via Wt. The @appdl-block deals with dynamic downloads under the /dl-path, which refer to things served by Wt via WServer::addResource().

There’s still a bunch of problems with the page (at least according to the W3 validators), and there’s also a bunch of things I’d like to do. But since this isn’t the 1990:s anymore, I’ll refrain from putting “under-construction” icons everywhere.

So, after having managed to successfully defend my Ph.D. thesis, it’s time to leave Chalmers and start doing some moving. One one hand, this includes a move to Zürich, where I’m starting as a Postdoc with the VMML at the University of Zürich. On the other hand, it means moving my academic homepage from the Chalmers servers, since my computer account at Chalmers will eventually expire (and my homepage there will cease to exist).

This page is pretty much the result of the latter move. The former one is a bit of work in progress (edit: so is the former, actually). I’m in Zürich, but most of my stuff isn’t - yet. Fun times are sure to be had, especially since finding apartments in Zürich apparently is somewhat crazy totally insane.