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Simple FastCGI wrapper for CGI scripts

Homepage

http://nginx.localdomain.pl/wiki/FcgiWrap

Author

Grzegorz Nosek <root@localdomain.pl>

Contributors

W-Mark Kubacki <wmark@hurrikane.de> Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>

This page has been translated into Spanish language by Maria Ramos from Webhostinghub.com/support/edu.

This software is released under the MIT license. See COPYING for details.

• very lightweight (84KB of private memory per instance)
• fixes broken CR/LF in headers
• handles environment in a sane way (CGI scripts get HTTP-related env. vars from FastCGI parameters and inherit all the others from fcgiwrap's environment)
• no configuration, so you can run several sites off the same fcgiwrap pool
• passes CGI stderr output to fcgiwrap's stderr or FastCGI stderr stream

Makefile and configure script is generated by GNU autotools. Therefore you need the latter.

pkg-config is needed, else you may get AC_DEFINE errors.

fcgiwrap links to dev-libs/fcgi which can be obtained from http://www.fastcgi.com/ .

fcgiwrap also uses (but not requires) systemd for socket activation.

To install:

autoreconf -i
./configure
make
make install

fcgiwrap will be copied to /usr/local/sbin/fcgiwrap if you did not set --prefix for configure or DESTDIR for the makefile.

Most probably you will want fcgiwrap be launched by www-servers/spawn-fcgi. Or you could use the author's Perl launcher - see the homepage for that.

There are two modes of fcgiwrap operation:

• when SCRIPT_FILENAME is set, its value is treated as the script name and executed directly.
• otherwise, DOCUMENT_ROOT and SCRIPT_NAME are concatenated and split back again into the script name and PATH_INFO. For example, given a DOCUMENT_ROOT of /www/cgi and SCRIPT_NAME of /subdir/example.cgi/foobar, fcgiwrap will execute /www/cgi/subdir/example.cgi with PATH_INFO of /foobar (assuming example.cgi exists and is executable).