It turns out that my web hosting company is getting serious about me using Fast CGI for emacswiki.org and oddmuse.org. After some fooling around on the webserver, I decided that I needed a local lighttpd installation to get aquainted with the software.
I joined #lighttpd on Freenode and installed it. After a while, I got to a dead end and posted some questions ¹:
fastcgi.server = ( "/my/" => (( "socket" => "/tmp/fcgi-test.socket", "bin-path" => "/Users/Shared/WebSite/FCGI/test.fcgi" ))) cgi.assign = ( ".pl" => "/usr/bin/perl", )
I can now visit `http://localhost/rock.pl` and get the rock.pl to run correctly. That is, plain CGI works.
When I visit `http://localhost/my/food` however, I get a 404 error instead of my test.fcgi being run. Any idea what is going wrong?
Starting the server using `sudo lighttpd -f /Users/Shared/WebSite/Conf/lighttpd.conf` doesn’t produce output at the moment. should it list the processes started?
In the following setup, it looks as if the URL to a non-existing script such as `http://localhost/mu.fcgi` should work just as well as the URL to an existing script such as `http://localhost/test.fcgi`. How come the first one returns a 404 and the second one seems to work? Doesn’t the first one (non-existing mu.fcgi) trigger the same .fcgi pattern?
fastcgi.server = ( ".fcgi" => (( "socket" => "/tmp/fcgi-test.socket", "bin-path" => "/Users/Shared/WebSite/Pages/test.fcgi", "min-procs" => 1, "max-procs" => 1, "idle-timeout" => 20 )))
I guess my main problem is that I want to run two wikis on a single server. This seems to require the setup using prefixes, but the only setup I have working uses file extensions. I guess I could use one file extension per wiki but boy what a hack.
In the end, this is what worked:
server.document-root = "/Users/Shared/WebSite/Pages"
url.rewrite-once = ( "^/test(\?|/|$)" => "/test.fcgi",
"^/rock(\?|/|$)" => "/rock.fcgi" )
$HTTP["url"] =~ "/test" {
fastcgi.server = (
".fcgi" => ((
"socket" => "/tmp/fcgi-test.socket",
"bin-path" => "/Users/Shared/WebSite/Pages/test.fcgi",
"min-procs" => 1,
"max-procs" => 1,
"idle-timeout" => 20 )))
}
$HTTP["url"] =~ "/rock" {
fastcgi.server = (
".fcgi" => ((
"socket" => "/tmp/fcgi-rock.socket",
"bin-path" => "/Users/Shared/WebSite/Pages/rock.fcgi",
"min-procs" => 1,
"max-procs" => 1,
"idle-timeout" => 20 )))
}
With test.fcgi and rock.fcgi being files like the following:
#! /usr/bin/perl
use CGI::Fast qw(:standard);
$COUNTER = 0;
while (new CGI::Fast) {
print header;
print start_html("Fast CGI Rocks");
print
h1("Fast CGI Rocks"),
"Invocation number ",b($COUNTER++),
" PID ",b($),".",
hr;
print end_html;
}
Note:
1. If you put the .fcgi scripts outside the document root, you will get 404 Not Found errors.
2. I cannot get rid of the .fcgi extension, since using a prefix rule for fastcgi-server did not work (beginning of this page).
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