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Fastcgi on lighttpd

Opensuse config

  • On Opensuse the lighttpd is in the factory tree at repos.opensuse.org
    http://repos.opensuse.org:/http/SUSE_Linux_10.1/i586/lighttpd-1.4.15-6.1.i586.rpm
  • Store the wt application in /srv/www/cgi-bin
    /srv/www/cgi-bin/helloworld.fcgi
  • Opensuse lighttpd configs are modular - create a new file /etc/lighttpd/conf.d/helloworld.conf
    fastcgi.server += ("/helloworld" =>
                   ("helloworld" =>
                     ("socket" => "/usr/wt/socket",
                      "bin-path" => "/srv/www/cgi-bin/helloworld.fcgi",
                      "max-procs" => 1,
                      "check-local" => "disable",
                      "bin-environment" => ("FOO" => "bar")
                     )
                    )
                )
  • in /etc/lighttpd/modules.conf
    enable the following (existing) section
    ##
## FastCGI (mod_fastcgi)
##
include "conf.d/fastcgi.conf"

    append an include line at the end of the modules.conf file
    include "conf.d/helloworld.conf"
  • When done you can access the application on htpp://your.server/helloworld

Flat File Config

If you have a single config file, add such a section
server.modules += ( "mod_fastcgi" )
fastcgi.server += ("/helloworld" =>
                   ("helloworld" =>
                     ("socket" => "/usr/wt/socket",
                      "bin-path" => "/srv/www/cgi-bin/helloworld.fcgi",
                      "max-procs" => 1,
                      "check-local" => "disable",
                      "bin-environment" => ("FOO" => "bar")
                     )
                    )
                )
  • When done you can access the application on htpp://your.server/helloworld

/usr/wt

The fastcgi socket has been put into /usr/wt/socket because the default wt build does put its own session server sockets as $prefix/wt/run/server-$X. There is no requirement to let the lighttpd precreate fastcgi wt servers to handle different connections as wt will schedule server creation and session scheduling internally. The internal creation of session servers is not logged to httpd log (where it should be).

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