PHP CGI
Gentoo
Install apache with threads, mpm worker, plus mod_fcgid package and add -D FCGID to apache2 conf.
In the Directory configuration of every site, add this:
<Directory /var/www/localhost/htdocs> Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI AddType text/html .php .phps AddHandler php-fastcgi .php .html .htm .js Action php-fastcgi /cgi-bin/php.fcgi DirectoryIndex index.php index.html </Directory>
Add this so it is global:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/
<Directory /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/>
Options +ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
The php.fcgi file is created in /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/. It should be executable, and it holds the configuration settings for that CGI installation.
#!/bin/bash PHP_CGI=/usr/lib/php5.3/bin/php-cgi PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=4 PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=1000 export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS exec $PHP_CGI
Parsing .phps
If you want to use .phps to parse the source file and display it in colored format, you need to update the Apache config file and create a new CGI shell script with slight differences.
AddHandler phps-fastcgi .phps Action phps-fastcgi /cgi-bin/phps.fcgi
#!/bin/bash PHP_CGI="/usr/lib/php5.3/bin/php-cgi -s" ...
Migration to PHP CGI
There will be some things that need to change when migrating from a module to CGI.
.htaccess PHP changes
Things like php_value and php_flag must be put somewhere else.
If you are running a custom php.ini for the site, you can make them directly there. Otherwise, you can use .user.ini and override php.ini changes.
Debugging
No input file
If you run into an issue where it says “No input file specified”, then the PHP binary is not executing the code for some reason, and will send a 404 HTTP header. Check the configuration file for errors, turn on error reporting, or watch the error log to flush out the issue.
The most likely culprit is open_basedir.
