fcgiwrap

Info:	Simple FastCGI wrapper for CGI scripts
Homepage:	http://nginx.localdomain.pl/wiki/FcgiWrap
Author:	Grzegorz Nosek <root@localdomain.pl>
Contributors:	W-Mark Kubacki <wmark@hurrikane.de> Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> Justin Zhang <schnell18@gmail.com>

This page has been translated into Spanish language by Maria Ramos from Webhostinghub.com/support/edu.

Features

• very lightweight (84KB of private memory per instance)
• fixes broken CR/LF in headers
• handles environment in a sane way (CGI scripts get HTTP-related env. vars from FastCGI parameters and inherit all the others from fcgiwrap's environment)
• no configuration, so you can run several sites off the same fcgiwrap pool
• passes CGI stderr output to fcgiwrap's stderr or FastCGI stderr stream
• support systemd socket activation, launcher program like spawn-fcgi is no longer required on systemd-enabled distributions

Install from source

requirements

Makefile and configure script is generated by GNU autotools. Therefore you need the latter.

fcgiwrap links to dev-libs/fcgi which can be obtained from http://www.fastcgi.com/ .

fcgiwrap also uses (but not requires) systemd for socket activation.

procedure

To install:

autoreconf -i
./configure
make
make install

fcgiwrap will be copied to /usr/local/sbin/fcgiwrap if you did not set --prefix for configure or DESTDIR for the makefile.

Install from RPM package

requirements

At the time of writing, the fcgiwrap RPM is not included in any public repository. As a result, You have to build the RPM from scratch by following the procedure below:

build the RPM package

Install required dependencies RPM build tools:

sudo yum install -y autoconf automake fcgi-devel pkgconfig rpm-build

On systemd enabled OS, you need additional systemd-devel pacakge:

sudo yum install -y systemd-devel

Then you download appropriate version of the fcgiwrap source tarball from Github or clone this repository and build the source tarball by using this command:

git archive --format tgz --prefix fcgiwrap-1.1.0/ HEAD > fcgiwrap-1.1.0.tgz

Then you can kick off the RPM build by running:

rpmbuild -ta fcgiwrap-1.1.0.tgz

and locate the result .rpm file at ~/rpmbuild/RPMS.

install the RPM package

The RPM package of fcgiwrap include the excutable /usr/sbin/fcgiwrap and manual page. If you build the RPM package on systemd enabled OS, the systemd unit files are included in this package as well. To install the package, run command like below:

sudo rpm -Uhv fcgiwrap-1.1.0-1.fc18.armv6hl.rpm

The exact name of the RPM package file depends on the OS and hardware architecture where you build the RPM.

Usage

If you are on traditional SysV init systems, most probably you will want fcgiwrap be launched by www-servers/spawn-fcgi. Or you could use the author's Perl launcher - see the homepage for that. On the systemd enabled distributions like Fedora 14+, RHEL 7+, you can take advantage of systemd socket activation feature instead of the extra launcher like spawn-fcgi. The systemd unit files fcgiwrap.socket and fcgiwrap.service is included in the tarball release under systemd directory. You can also build the RPM package by following the instructions aforementioned. The RPM package installs and enables the socket activation for fcgiwrap automatically on systemd enabled OS.

There are two modes of fcgiwrap operation:

• when SCRIPT_FILENAME is set, its value is treated as the script name and executed directly.
• otherwise, DOCUMENT_ROOT and SCRIPT_NAME are concatenated and split back again into the script name and PATH_INFO. For example, given a DOCUMENT_ROOT of /www/cgi and SCRIPT_NAME of /subdir/example.cgi/foobar, fcgiwrap will execute /www/cgi/subdir/example.cgi with PATH_INFO of /foobar (assuming example.cgi exists and is executable).