I'm running Gentoo Linux, and I'm trying to get Lighttpd+PHP+FastCGI working. I discovered that Lighttpd doesn't have a FastCGI process manager. So, you're supposed to use spawn-fcgi. I have Lighttpd and PHP working. My problem is that I do not know how to setup spawn-fcgi and lighttpd to use my web-app.
This is what I've installed:
- Lighttpd
- PHP (with
CGI
USE flag) - spawn-fcgi
The application I am trying to communicate with is just the fcgi docs' example, tiny.c
:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
void main(void)
{
int count = 0;
printf("Content-type: text/html\r\n"
"\r\n"
"<title>CGI Hello!</title>"
"<h1>CGI Hello!</h1>"
"Request number %d running on host <i>%s</i>\n",
++count, getenv("SERVER_NAME"));
}
I have it compiled and working from the console:
nick@blozup ~/zwave $ ./tiny.fcgi
Content-type: text/html <title>FastCGI Hello!</title>
<h1>FastCGI Hello!</h1>Request number 1 running on host <i>(null)</i>
Bear with me here, I have no idea what I'm doing...
First I tried just placing the compiled tiny.fcgi
in a web directory (cgi-bin
, specifically, which didn't work, then just in the root web directory). The closest I got was a 403 forbidden error message. I made sure the permissions were liberal, no luck.
After reading some more, I realized that I needed to use spawn-fcgi. So I installed it and symlinked my application, and copied the default config, and edited for my application:
ln -s /etc/init.d/spawn-fcgi /etc/init.d/spawn-fcgi.fcgi
cp /etc/conf.d/spawn-fcgi /etc/conf.d/spawn-fcgi.fcgi
File /etc/conf.d/spawn-fcgi.fcgi
:
# Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/www-servers/spawn-fcgi/files/spawn-fcgi.confd,v 1.6 2009/09/28 08:38:02 bangert Exp $
# DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE DIRECTLY! CREATE A COPY AND MODIFY THAT INSTEAD!
# The FCGI process can be made available through a filesystem socket or
# through a inet socket. One and only one of the two types must be choosen.
# Default is the inet socket.
# The filename specified by
# FCGI_SOCKET will be suffixed with a number for each child process, for
# example, fcgi.socket-1.
# Leave empty to use an IP socket (default). See below. Enabling this,
# disables the IP socket.
#
FCGI_SOCKET=/var/run/fcgi.socket
# When using FCGI_PORT, connections will only be accepted from the following
# address. The default is 127.0.0.1. Use 0.0.0.0 to bind to all addresses.
#
FCGI_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1
# The port specified by FCGI_PORT is the port used
# by the first child process. If this is set to 1234 then subsequent child
# processes will use 1235, 1236, etc.
#
#FCGI_PORT=1234
# The path to your FastCGI application. These sometimes carry the .fcgi
# extension but not always. For PHP, you should usually point this to
# /usr/bin/php-cgi.
#
#FCGI_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/php-cgi
FCGI_PROGRAM=/home/nick/zwave/tiny.fcgi
# The number of child processes to spawn. The default is 1.
#
FCGI_CHILDREN=1
# If you want to run your application inside a chroot then specify the
# directory here. Leave this blank otherwise.
#
FCGI_CHROOT=
# If you want to run your application from a specific directiory specify
# it here. Leave this blank otherwise.
#
FCGI_CHDIR=
# The user and group to run your application as. If you do not specify these,
# the application will be run as root:root.
#
FCGI_USER=
FCGI_GROUP=
# Additional options you might want to pass to spawn-fcgi
#
#FCGI_EXTRA_OPTIONS=
# If your application requires additional environment variables, you may
# specify them here. See PHP example below.
#
ALLOWED_ENV="PATH"
Then I started the process, and it is running now:
blozup zwave # /etc/init.d/spawn-fcgi.fcgi start
Starting.... [OK]
blozup zwave # ps aux | grep tiny root
5809 0.0 0.0 2236 504 ? Ss 17:47 0:00 /home/nick/zwave/tiny.fcgi
and a socket has been created at: /var/run/lighttpd/tiny.socket-1
Now What?
How do I get lighttpd to connect to this? and how do I access that from a URL?
I know lighttpd needs to use that socket, but when I edit the mod_fastcgi.conf
file:
fastcgi.server += (".fcgi" =>
( "localhost" =>
(
"socket" => "/var/run/lighttpd/fcgi.socket-1",
"bin-path" => "/usr/bin/cgi-fcgi",
"max-procs" => 1
))
)
I get this error:
2012-06-13 18:50:18: (mod_fastcgi.c.1389) --- fastcgi spawning
port: 0
socket /var/run/lighttpd/fcgi.socket-1
current: 0 / 1
2012-06-13 18:50:18: (mod_fastcgi.c.1103) the fastcgi-backend /usr/bin/cgi-fcgi failed to start:
2012-06-13 18:50:18: (mod_fastcgi.c.1107) child exited with status 1 /usr/bin/cgi-fcgi
2012-06-13 18:50:18: (mod_fastcgi.c.1110) If you're trying to run your app as a FastCGI backend, make sure you're using the FastCGI-enabled version.
If this is PHP on Gentoo, add 'fastcgi' to the USE flags.
2012-06-13 18:50:18: (mod_fastcgi.c.1397) [ERROR]: spawning fcgi failed.
I don't know where to go from here. I couldn't find much on how to setup the lighttpd web server to spawn anything but PHP. Would this all just be a lot easier with Apache?
/var/run/lighttpd/tiny.socket-1
, my FCGI application has created that. I just don't know how to get Lighttpd to "open" that socket. I figured it was in the config file and had something to do withcgi-fcgi
. In mod_fcgi.conf I specified that same socket:"socket" => "/var/run/lighttpd/fcgi.socket-1"
, but either cgi-fcgi is the wrong program to call, or I'm calling it wrong.bin-path
line inmod_fastcgi.conf
, keeping the socket, and the server starts. The only indication I get that it has opened that socket in the logs, is: "all handlers for /tiny.fcgi? on tiny.fcgi are down." Now I am getting 500/503 errors in lighttpd.