fastcgi

FastCGI

FastCGI is a protocol for interfacing interactive programs with a web server. It's main aim is to reduce the overhead associated with interfacing the web server and CGI programs, allowing a server to handle more web page requests at once.

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spawn-fcgi

spawn-fcgi allows you to run FastCGI separate from Lighttpd.

cd /extra/src
wget http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-fcgi-1.6.3.tar.gz
tar zxf spawn-fcgi-1.6.3
cd spawn-fcgi-1.6.3

Automatic Startup
FastCGI can be supervised by daemontools.
Assuming you have already installed daemontools, create the directories to hold the lighttpd run script, logging script, and config files:

cd /var/service
mkdir -m 1755 fast-cgi
cd fast-cgi

Create the run script (/var/service/fast-cgi/run), with the following:

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FastCGI

FastCGI is a language independent, scalable, open extension to CGI that provides high performance and persistence without the limitations of server specific APIs.

Installation
Install fastcgi libraries:

cd /extra/src
wget http://www.fastcgi.com/dist/fcgi-current.tar.gz
tar zxf fcgi-2.4.0.tar.gz
cd fcgi-2.4.0
./configure
make
make install

Download the mod_fastcgi source:

cd /extra/src
wget http://www.fastcgi.com/dist/mod_fastcgi-current.tar.gz
tar zxf mod_fastcgi-current.tar.gz
cd mod_fastcgi-2.4.6
cp Makefile.AP2 Makefile
make
make install

PHP Configuration
In addition to any other directives, PHP needs to be configured with:

--enable-fastcgi \

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