NAME
    starlight - a light and pure-Perl PSGI/Plack HTTP server with pre-forks

SYNOPSIS
      $ 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

DESCRIPTION
    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 doesn't use any other modules than Plack.

    Starlight is created for Unix-like systems but it should also work on
    Windows with some limitations.

SEE ALSO
    Starlight, Thrall, Starlet, Starman

LIMITATIONS
    Perl on Windows systems (MSWin32 and cygwin) emulates perlfunc and
    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.

BUGS
  Windows
    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 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.

    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.

  Reporting
    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

AUTHORS
    Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@cpan.org>

    Based on Thrall by:

    Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@cpan.org>

    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>

LICENSE
    Copyright (c) 2013-2014 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