FastCGIExternalServer demystified

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A simple example

In the following examples I’m going to assume a few things:

• All software is installed in
  /opt
• You’re able to add and change virtual hosts at will
• We’ll use some directories in
  /srv/www
• The Web server is on the machine with the IP address 192.168.1.100

If that’s not the case on your system, make sure to adapt the examples according to your setup.

To enable

add this line to your

:

LoadModule  fastcgi_modules    modules/mod_fastcgi.so

Also make sure to comment all lines loading

.

For the first test, let’s create a new virtual host:

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerName    fcgi.test.local
    FastCGIExternalServer /srv/www/fcgi -host 127.0.0.1:9000
    DocumentRoot /srv/www/fcgi
    <Directory /srv/www/fcgi>
        AllowOverride   All
        Order           Allow,Deny
        Allow           from all
    </Directoy>
</VirtualHost>

As you can see, in the first example the path option for the

directive is exactly the same as the

.
By doing this, you’re basically telling Apache, that everything that resides in this very directory should be handled by

which in turn will pass it on to the external server we specified.

So, let’s check it out.