Re: FastCGIExternalServer, path used actually has to exist

  Yes the FAQ does say that paths with sub dirs should work.

So there's either a bug in the FAQ or mod_fastcgi or apache2.

Which?  I don't know. It would seem easiest to correct the FAQ.


On 09/04/2010 12:15 PM, Alex Cartwright wrote:
> Hum, the FAQ states taht you can do this though as seen on:
> http://www.fastcgi.com/docs/faq.html#FastCGIExternalServer
>
> Or am I reading this wrongly?
>
> On Saturday 04 September 2010 17:09:12 Rob wrote:
>> I didn't say this is a bug.  I said I confirmed the behavior.
>>
>> It's not clear to me that this is a bug because this behavior
>> depends on how apache resolves the URL to an internal
>> filename.  I suspect that possibly a "Directory" directive
>> in apache on the Alias directory might allow subdirectories
>> in the Alias to be accessed as a FastCGIExternalServer path,
>> but I can't verify that right now.  Maybe on Tuesday.
>>
>> In other words, this may be a normal feature of apache
>> to disallow access to files outside the approved namespaces.
>>
>> On 09/03/2010 12:50 PM, Alex Cartwright wrote:
>>> So is this a bug in fastcgi, or with Apache?
>>>
>>> On Friday 03 September 2010 18:03:43 Rob wrote:
>>>>    I can confirm that a slash in the FastCgiExternalServer path and
>>>>
>>>> corresponding Alias directives does cause the file not found error.
>>>>
>>>> It's not clear to me, but it seems the interpretation takes place in
>>>> the apache2 aliasing modules.
>>>>
>>>> In the working example config below, If I change the
>>>> "/myapp.rob.example.com"
>>>>
>>>> to "/myapp.rob.example.com/XXX, then  I see the apache2 error.log
> message:
>>>>      [error] [client 127.0.1.1] File does not exist:
>>>>      /myapp.rob.example.com
>>>>
>>>> <VirtualHost *:80>
>>>>
>>>>     ServerName rob.example.com
>>>>     AliasMatch ^/(.*) /myapp.rob.example.com
>>>>
>>>> </VirtualHost>
>>>>
>>>> FastCgiExternalServer /myapp.rob.example.com  -socket
>>>> /var/run/myapp/sockets/rob.example.com
>>>>
>>>> The FastCGI app is written in C++ linking only with libfcgi (no
>>>> libcgi++, we wrote our own C++ class wrappers).
>>>>
>>>> Ubuntu Lucid
>>>> Linux 2.6.32-24-generic-pae #42-Ubuntu SMP i686 GNU/Linux
>>>> apache2    2.2.14-5ubuntu8.2
>>>> apache2-mpm-worker    2.2.14-5ubuntu8.2
>>>> apache2-utils    2.2.14-5ubuntu8.2
>>>> apache2.2-bin    2.2.14-5ubuntu8.2
>>>> apache2.2-common    2.2.14-5ubuntu8.2
>>>> libapache2-mod-fastcgi    2.4.6-1
>>>> libfcgi-dev    2.4.0-7.1ubuntu1
>>>> libfcgi0ldbl    2.4.0-7.1ubuntu1
>>>>
>>>> On 09/03/2010 08:40 AM, Alex Cartwright wrote:
>>>>> Sorry, forgot to reply to all instead, here is the message again!
>>>>>
>>>>> Ah ok, I've removed the Options line now, thanks for that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Apache error log was showing me the following if the directory did not
>>> exist:
>>>>>          File does not exist: /home/foobar/fcgi
>>>>>
>>>>> and when the file did not exist:
>>>>>          File does not exist: /home/foobar/fcgi/php53-fpm
>>>>>
>>>>> However, I have got it working now with a different configuration, but
>>>>> I still have some issues I'd like to discuss - here is my new config:
>>>>>
>>>>> <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
>>>>>          AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
>>>>>          Action application/x-httpd-php /fcgi-bin/php-fpm
>>>>>          Alias /fcgi-bin/php-fpm /fcgi-extsrvs-phpfpm
>>>>>
>>>>>          <Location /fcgi-bin/php-fpm>
>>>>>
>>>>>                  Order Deny,Allow
>>>>>                  Deny from all
>>>>>                  Allow from env=REDIRECT_STATUS
>>>>>
>>>>>          </Location>
>>>>>
>>>>>          FastCGIExternalServer /fcgi-extsrvs-phpfpm -socket
>>>>>
>>>>> /var/opt/php53/run/www.sock -user foobar -group foobar
>>>>>
>>>>>          <Directory /home/foobar/domains/foo.example.com/public>
>>>>>
>>>>>                  Options FollowSymLinks
>>>>>                  AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo Limit Options=Indexes
>>>>>
>>>>>                  Order Deny,Allow
>>>>>                  Allow from all
>>>>>
>>>>>          </Directory>
>>>>>
>>>>> </VirtualHost>
>>>>>
>>>>> This works just fine, but if I change 'Alias /fcgi-bin/php-fpm
>>>>> /fcgi-extsrvs-phpfpm' to 'Alias /fcgi-bin/php-fpm
>>>>> /fcgi-extsrvs/phpfpm' and 'FastCGIExternalServer /fcgi-extsrvs-phpfpm
>>>>> ...' to 'FastCGIExternalServer /fcgi-extsrvs/phpfpm ....' (note the -
>>>>> replace with a / in fcgi-extsrvs-phpfpm) then I get the following
>>>>>
>>>>> Apache errors:
>>>>>          File does not exist: /fcgi-extsrvs
>>>>>
>>>>> Doing that simple change (replacing a - with /) results in a 404
>>>>> error. Is a slash not allowed? That is something which has confused
>>>>> me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3 September 2010 13:37, Rénald Casagraude<[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> On 3 sept. 2010, at 13:56, Alex Cartwright wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Remove the Options ExecCGI that does not make sense in external calls
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What happens if the file does not extsts ?
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Rénald
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