Re: Working installation with Apache 2.0?

Yves Goergen wrote:

>Hello,
>I have been running an Apache 2.0 webserver with PHP4 CGI support for
>some time now and I'm currently testing out new ways to install all
>these apps and make them faster. One of this is using FastCGI with PHP4
>and PHP5, maybe also with a PHP cache in the end.
>
>But right now I have a problem getting FastCGI to work in first
>instance: I tried the Debian 3.1 package libfcgi0 and then the FastCGI
>sources from 2003-11-11 (latest download archive), but both of them
>cannot be included in Apache. I added this line in the Apache configuration:
>
>LoadModule fastcgi_module /usr/local/lib/libfcgi.so
>  
>

I guess you should load the fcgi module mod_fastcgi.so rather than the 
library libfcgi.so (to be linked to your application instead).

This works fine for me with apache 2.0.46:
LoadModule fastcgi_module       /usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_fastcgi.so

Cheers,
-- Fabrizio --

>But Apache always says:
>
>Syntax error on line 234 of /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf:
>Can't locate API module structure `fastcgi_module' in file
>/usr/local/lib/libfcgi.so: /usr/local/apache2/lib/libapr-0.so.0:
>undefined symbol: fastcgi_module
>
>It seems that FastCGI is somehow incompatible with Apache 2.0. I have
>found an old FAQ item, mentioning a similar problem with Apache 1.3:
>http://www.fastcgi.com/docs/faq.html#ap_os_is_path_absolute
>But the apxs call written there doesn't work for me. This is the last
>lines it printed out:
>
>libtool: compile: libobj name `*.lo' may not contain shell special
>characters.
>gcc: *.c: No such file or directory
>gcc: no input files
>apxs:Error: Command failed with rc=65536
>.
>
>Any ideas how I can get that module working? I compiled Apache 2.0.55
>from source, with suexec support.
>
>To be honest, to me it looks a lot like FastCGI is dead for a long time
>now. We have the last release of over two years ago, the FAQ is
>incomplete, many sources on the web say it's hard to install and I have
>seen recent posts in the archives asking about Apache 2.2 support and
>the answer was something like "no". Is it worth the effort trying to get
>FastCGI to work or will I possibly face a problem when Apache makes an
>incompatible but required update and am I then forced to go back to the
>conventional CGI solution (with suPHP, which is the only reasonable
>secure multi-user setup still, besides FastCGI+suexec).
>
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