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

By: Rob Freeman

Rob Freeman — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:24:46 +0000

Don’t forget, if you’re doing Virtual Host configuration, you’ll need to add the below between the

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

By: asdf

asdf — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:13:40 +0000

My Apache serves html files which are in files without extension (i.e. no .html or .php). How do I tell apache to process these as PHP files?

By: cjay

cjay — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:09:56 +0000

Hi. I have just followed these instructions to install FastCGI on CentOS, but when I load the page, the styling has vanished. Also, when I click on a .PHP link, I see the PHP code, not the page. Hope you can help!!

By: A.Jesin

A.Jesin — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:03:54 +0000

Should php scripts be chmodded +x to make them executable ?

By: Levente Peres

Levente Peres — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:33:23 +0000

Hi there,

Useful tutorial.

However, SELinux will throw this utterly off the chart. It’s not enough to…

setsebool -P httpd_unified=0

SELinux will still continue to prevent your apps from working somehow – at least if it’s anything more complex than a phpinfo(); For example, try to run a wordpress on it in name based virtualhost and you will see… I know it’s SELinux because if I do

setenforce 0

Everything immediately starts working just fine. But this is not very desirable.

I’d really like to see a tutorial which covers this issue taking into consideration SELinux + CentOS 5.5… Or at least some more info on this topic…

Levente

By: Ali

Ali — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:15:02 +0000

root@server [/opt/mod_fastcgi-2.4.6]# set top_dir=/usr/lib64/httpd
root@server [/opt/mod_fastcgi-2.4.6]# yum install httpd-devel
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, securitynstall httpd-devel packageyum install htt
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* addons: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net
* base: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net
* extras: mirror.netrino.co.uk
* updates: mirror.netrino.co.uk
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Setting up Install Process
No package httpd-devel available.
Nothing to do
root@server [/opt/mod_fastcgi-2.4.6]# make top_dir=/usr/lib64/httpd
Makefile:12: /usr/lib64/httpd/build/special.mk: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib64/httpd/build/special.mk’. Stop.
root@server [/opt/mod_fastcgi-2.4.6]#

I use centos 5.5 64bit
What is the problem?

By: Josh Jameson

Josh Jameson — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:23:42 +0000

If you want to load a php.ini file, i found the following works. Thank you for the excellent tutorial.

#!/bin/bash
# Shell Script To Run PHP5 using mod_fastcgi under Apache 2.x
# Tested under Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS 5.x
### Set PATH ###
PHP_CGI=/usr/local/bin/php-cgi
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=4
PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=1000
### no editing below ###
export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN
export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS
bash -l -c “$PHP_CGI –php-ini=/etc/php.ini”

By: fawkstrot

fawkstrot — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:36:05 +0000

I’m getting odd Gateway Timeout errors using this method. It will serve out 100 pages properly, then one of the 504′s. Sometimes they’ll happen a lot, sometimes they won’t happen for quite some time. It only happens when using fastcgi. I’ve tried everything I can think of, including scouring Google for information on how to increase the fcgi timeout, etc. Nothing seems to be working.

Any help?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:38:47 +0000

this doesn’t work on 64-bit. Wrong mod file.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:09:19 +0000

Thanks for Installing FascCGI guide.

By: Krish

Krish — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:47:50 +0000

Hi Guys,

Does anybody tried this in linux. I have apache 2.2 with php5. Currently i am using prefork module and the performance is not good. Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
krish

By: expssh

expssh — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:49:13 +0000

Super! Thank you!

By: Carlos

Carlos — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:37:14 +0000

Well, this is an old post but I will try, anyway:
We are sufering problems with headers not properly delivered to PHP so authorization is not working.
We had tried with the FastCgiConfig -pass-header HTTP_AUTHORIZATION

option without success
Any Idea about whos solving this problem?

Thanks

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 ?