Apache+PHP: more "universal" config

Hi,

i know, that i can copy php to the cgi-bin directory, but i don't want
to do that. What i want, is a more universal config, that tells
mod_fastcgi to execute every file with the extension "php" with a
certain fastcgi-server.

  FastCgiServer /path/to/cgi-bin/php
  <Location /cgi-bin/php>
    SetHandler fastcgi-script
  </Location>
  AddHandler php-fastcgi .php .php4
  Action php-fastcgi /cgi-bin/php

Apache will always try to resolve the action's path relative to the
ServerRoot - or DocumentRoot i guess.
But i want an apache-wide config, that valid for all virtualhosts at
once. If i do the "place a php-shellscript into the
cgi-bin-folder"-trick, i would have to do that for every virtualhost -
and in addition, i would need one FastCgiServer-directive for each copy
of php - for each cgi-bin folder.

So what i'd really like to do, is the following:

- tell mod_fastcgi that there is a server at /usr/bin/php-cgi
- tell mod_fastcgi to use /usr/bin/php-cgi for each *.php file
- tell apache to use mod_fastcgi for each *.php file

That doesn't seem to be possible.

Here's how a possible config could look like:

  FastCgiServerHandler php-fastcgi /usr/bin/php-cgi
  AddHandler php-fastcgi .php .php4

So FastCgiServerHandler defines a new handler names "php-fastcgi" which
can be used with AddHandlet to connect it to the all files with the
extensions "php" and "php4".

A more advanced config could be:

  FastCgiServerHandler php4-fastcgi /usr/bin/php4-cgi
  FastCgiServerHandler php5-fastcgi /usr/bin/php5-cgi
  FastCgiServerHandler php5-test /usr/bin/php5-cgi -user nobody
  AddHandler php4-fastcgi .php4
  AddHandler php5-fastcgi .php5 .php
  AddHandler php5-test .test

It defines 3 servers for php4, php5 and a special handler, where the
php5 server is started as a different user. Then the handlers are mapped
to the different file extenstions.


So has anybody thought about that already? Is there any extention/patch
to mod_fastcgi? mod_fcgid doesn't seem to allow that either :-(


Unfortunatly, mod_fastcgi relies on apache's Action-directive to use it
for PHP. This is not very convenient.


Thx
  Sven

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