Comments on: Red Hat / CentOS Apache 2 FastCGI PHP Configuration

By: Kok Wen Yen

Kok Wen Yen — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:10:03 +0000

My bad. It is indeed Fast CGI. Only thing is th in this case, Apache is the one spawning the fastcgi processes. Also, does that mean there is no need to install the mod_fastcgi module? Simply using PHP’s php-cgi is sufficient?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:33:47 +0000

Kok Wen Yen is right, the configuration is only using CGI and NOT FastCGI.

By: Kok Wen Yen

Kok Wen Yen — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:47:54 +0000

Hi,

Are you sure the above example is executed via mod_fastcgi? The “Action php5-fastcgi /cgi-bin/php.fcgi” will fire the php-cgi to handle all incoming php script, i.e. only using CGI instead of FastCGI. Isn’t it?

Nowhere in your example shows the use of FastCgiServer directive which is the one that starts the fast cgi server, right? I’m a bit confused here.

By: juggs

juggs — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:14:34 +0000

Hi,
Nice tutorial, php /w fastcgi is up and running except for one thing, no php-cgi processes are spawned:

root 27780 0.0 0.0 183296 3420 ? Ss 15:09 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 27781 0.0 0.0 183208 2292 ? S 15:09 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/fcgi-
apache 27782 0.0 0.0 183428 3084 ? S 15:09 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 27783 0.0 0.0 183428 3076 ? S 15:09 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/httpd

I set PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=4. Not sure where to start troubleshooting

By: mvug

mvug — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:11:08 +0000

Hi,

thanx for the tutorial! But, I am getting the error:
command not in docroot (/home/website/cgi-bin/php.fcgi)

What can I do? thanx!

By: ecmidas

ecmidas — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:25:17 +0000

First of all, thank you for the helpful article.
and i have a question about Zend Optimizer, in these combination, can Zend Optimizer be used together?
Any helpful comment would be great.
Thanks in advance.

By: celik

celik — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:43:07 +0000

hi all of this ok . it is run in console but not in browser

get a message
“The requested URL /var/www/cgi-bin/php.fcgi/index.php was not found on this server.”

conf ->

DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm index.html
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
AllowOverride None
AddHandler php5-fastcgi .php
Action php5-fastcgi /var/www/cgi-bin/php.fcgi
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

can u help me ?

By: Caspar Schutte

Caspar Schutte — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:54:41 +0000

Thank you!!! These instructions worked for me on CentOS 5.2. You saved me many hours of frustration.

By: Tomcat

Tomcat — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:01:29 +0000

Anyone got this working with Plesk 8.x on CentOS? I am getting a PHP source dump on accessing PHP files. Came to know that Plesk 9.2 supports PHP as FastCGI on Linux. But I need to get it working on Plesk 8.x.

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:51:53 +0000

Set top_dir=/usr/lib/httpd and install httpd-devel package.

By: jason

jason — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:36:14 +0000

i cant compile mod_fastcgi on centos 4!
Makefile:13: /usr/local/apache2/build/special.mk: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/local/apache2/build/special.mk’. Stop.
Whats the problem :S

By: omega13a

omega13a — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:52:50 +0000

I tried that but now all I get is a blank page on my website. I followed all the instructions… Maybe it has something to do with the fact I have Plesk also installed?

By: solshark

solshark — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:39:49 +0000

Thx. Simple and clean. Have just tested on my live CentOS server and all works fine.