Re: cgi-fcgi

Ok so now my thoughts are A bit clearer on this whole issue.
the cgi-fcgi application will do nothing more than pass enviorment
variables to a fastcgi enabled program. In my case php is the fastcgi
program, as it was compiled with --enable-fastcgi.

So i have set up the following test and it appeares to be working.

# Start up php
 php-fcgi -b 127.0.0.1:9966

# Run my test shell script that calls cgi-fcgi
---
/root/test.php
Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9

Hello World
---

# My two test files
--------------------------
/tmp/test.php
---
<?php echo "Hello World\n"; ?>
---

---
/root/test.sh
---
#!/bin/sh
export SCRIPT_FILENAME=/tmp/test.php
/usr/local/bin/cgi-fcgi -bind -connect 127.0.0.1:9966
--------------------------

So now I have a few new questions?
a.) Is this test logical?

b.) Am I invoking php correctly? What about the environment variable
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN When I ran this test I only saw 1 php process.
I would expect to see 5 as that is the default value. Will php spawn those
new processes as needed or do I need to do some more magic elsewhere.

c.) How would I configure apache to use the cgi-fcgi program? (NOT 
mod_fastcgi)
this is my best guess at it.

AddHandler php-fastcgi .php
Action php-fastcgi <SOME COMMAND HERE>

Any help would be appreciated.
-James




James M. Luedke wrote:

> Hello:
>    I am attempting to write a small webserver, and want to try to 
> incorporate fcgi into it.
> While reading over the the developers documentation I found the the 
> section
> "Using cgi-fcgi with any webserver"
> http://www.fastcgi.com/devkit/doc/fcgi-devel-kit.htm#S4.2
> So my question is this. Can I somehow configure cgi-fcgi to run php 
> scripts?
> I know that php has fastcgi support. How would I go about this? The 
> example
> online confused me.
>
> If my understanding is correct I would need to bulid php with 
> --enable-fastcgi.
> Then I need to run php as a deamon to retain cache between pages hits?
> Then I would need to configure my webserver to run cgi-fcgi for all 
> *.php scripts
> on my server. Is that right?
>
> So here is what I have done to test if my understanding is ok
>
>
> I wrote a simple php page /tmp/test.php
>
> <?php
> echo "Hello World";
> ?>
> chmod 777 /tmp/test.php
>
> I built php with --enable-fastcgi than I ran it from command line
> ./php -b 127.0.0.1:9966
>
> Then I attempted to use cgi-fcgi to run test.php
>
> <degobah 10:54:34># /usr/local/bin/cgi-fcgi -connect 127.0.0.1:9966 
> /root/test.
> php
> Status: 404
> Content-type: text/html
> X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9
>
> No input file specified.
> <degobah 10:54:37>#
>
> So, any idea on where my disconnect is? Am I starting php correctly, 
> am I envoking cgi-fcgi correctly?
>
> Thanks,
> -James
>
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