(The original file was taken from the links described in http://nginxlibrary.com/perl-fastcgi/, that is http://nginxlibrary.com/downloads/perl-fcgi/fastcgi-wrapper. It is attributed to Denis S. Filimonov).
These scripts are intended for use with Apache's mod_fcgid. If the daemonizing code is uncommented and the socket changed to a TCP/IP one, they may be used with nginx as well.
Feel free to use these scripts. Please consider giving changes back to the community.
This wrapper may execute virtually anything that uses STDIN and STDOUT. Originally written for Perl scripts, it should only be used for anything but Perl scripts, e.g. ELF binaries, Python CGI scripts etc.
This script works a bit like mod_cgid in that it still forks the application process.
This script is based on the same fastcgi-wrapper script as the one above, but it's adapted
for best Perl performance. It doesn't use the usual fork-exec-interpret mechanism (like CGI does).
It rather works like the PHP binaries compiled for FastCGI use (php-cgi, for example): It accepts
FastCGI requests, reads the file described in the $ENV{SCRIPT_FILENAME} variable and eval()uates
it. This mechanism does not involve any forking (as already mentioned), making it quite cheap.
A working configuration could look like the following example:
<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
FcgidConnectTimeout 20
FcgidMaxProcesses 30
FcgidMaxRequestsPerProcess 10000
FcgidMaxProcessesPerClass 3
FcgidMaxRequestLen 20000000
<FilesMatch "\.fcgi">
AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
Options +ExecCGI
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.pl">
AddHandler fcgid-script .pl
Options +ExecCGI
FcgidWrapper /usr/local/bin/perl-cgi-wrapper.pl .pl
</FilesMatch>
# C/C++/Haskell binaries
<FilesMatch "\.elf">
AddHandler fcgid-script .elf
Options +ExecCGI
FcgidWrapper /usr/local/bin/fastcgi-wrapper.pl .elf
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
If you don't use suexec or any other modules interfering with mod_fcgid, this is all the configuration you need.