Re: FastCGIExternalServer, path used actually has to exist

Have you tried the virtual flag with the FcgidWrapper directive? See 
http://httpd.apache.org/mod_fcgid/mod/mod_fcgid.html#fcgidwrapper for 
more information.

Best regards,

Tom Moers

On 3/09/2010 13:56, Alex Cartwright wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have spent the best part of 2 days trying to configure mod_fastcgi
> 2.4.6 within Apache 2.2.9 (Debian Lenny) but with no luck; I've read
> and read the documentation and it clearly states that the path used
> with 'FastCGIExternalServer' does not have to exist, however I have
> found the opposite to be true.
>
> This is the configuration that I am currently using, which is to use
> Apache2 with mod_fastcgi and PHP 5.3.3 with FPM
>
> $ cat /etc/apache2/mods-available/fastcgi.conf
> /etc/apache2/sites-available/foo.example.com
> <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
>          FastCgiWrapper /usr/lib/apache2/suexec
>
>          ## PHP-FPM
>          AddHandler php53-fpm .php
>          Action php53-fpm /fcgi-bin/php53-fpm
>          <Location /fcgi-bin/php53-fpm>
>                  Order Deny,Allow
>                  Deny from all
>                  Allow from env=REDIRECT_STATUS
>                  Options ExecCGI
>          </Location>
> </IfModule>
>
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>          ServerName foo.example.com
>
>          SuexecUserGroup foobar foobar
>
>          ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/vhosts/foo.example.com_error.log
>          CustomLog /var/log/apache2/vhosts/foo.example.com_access.log combined
>          DocumentRoot /home/foobar/domains/foo.example.com/public
>
>          ## FastCGI + PHP-FPM
>          FastCGIExternalServer /home/foobar/fcgi/php53-fpm -socket
> /var/opt/php53/run/www.sock -user foobar -group foobar
>          Alias /fcgi-bin/ /home/foobar/fcgi/
>
>          <Directory /home/foobar/domains/foo.example.com/public>
>                  Options FollowSymLinks -Indexes
>                  AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Limit Options
>
>                  Order Deny,Allow
>                  Allow from all
>          </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> This works just fine, and I can run PHP scripts through php-fpm.
> However I have had to create the file "/home/foobar/fcgi/php53-fpm"
> which contains nothing. I have tried playing around with the
> FastCGIExternalServer and Alias values so that it doesn't point to a
> file on the filesystem, which is stated as possible at
> http://www.fastcgi.com/docs/faq.html#FastCGIExternalServer
>
> I really can not get it to work without the dummy file. Can someone
> please confirm if the documentation is incorrect, or am I doing
> something wrong?
>
> Regards,
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