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h1. Howto CGI
lighttpd 2.0 doesn't support running cgi scripts/binaries directly (it is a "non-forking" webserver); so you need a FastCGI wrapper around your CGI applications (sometimes you just don't want or can't convert them to real FastCGI applicatons).
One wrapper for this is http://cgit.stbuehler.de/gitosis/fcgi-cgi/.
h2. Lighttpd config
Just forward cgi requests to your FastCGI wrapper:
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setup {
module.load ( "mod_fastcgi" );
}
alias ("/cgi-bin/" => "/usr/lib/cgi-bin");
if req.path =^ "/cgi-bin" {
index ( "index.cgi", "index.pl", "index.html" );
if phys.path =~ "\.(cgi|pl)$" {
if phys.is_file {
fastcgi "unix:/var/run/lighttpd/sockets/www-cgi.sock";
}
}
}
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h2. Spawn the FastCGI CGI wrapper
Simple ./run script to spawn rails applications with [[spawn-fcgi:WikiStart|spawn-fcgi]] and runit/daemontools:
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#!/bin/sh
exec 2>&1
exec /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -n -s /var/run/lighttpd/sockets/www-cgi.sock -u nobody -U www-data -- /usr/bin/fcgi-cgi
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