linuxgeek: [nslu2-linux] Re: Can't run cgi files with nginx and php-fcgi

Sunday, March 24, 2013

[nslu2-linux] Re: Can't run cgi files with nginx and php-fcgi

The solution is to use:

http://wiki.nginx.org/Fcgiwrap

or better and to do it properly:

http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/

none of which are available in optware. So I used thttpd which can do cgi.

--- In nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com, "mick_nslu2" <mick_nslu2@...> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I hope someone can point me in the right direction with this problem. I have installed and configured nginx, php, php-fcgi and spawn-fcgi on an unslung slug. Initially I configured /opt/etc/nginx/nginx.conf as I show below to be able to use nginx and php-fcgi to display php files:
> ================================
> server {
> listen 80;
> server_name localhost;
> root /home/httpd/mrtg;
> location / {
> index index.html index.htm;
> }
>
> #Pass all .php files onto a php-fpm/php-fcgi server.
>
> location ~ \.php$ {
>
> try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
>
> fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
> include fastcgi_params;
> fastcgi_index index.php;
> fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
> #fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
> fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
> fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
> fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
> fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
> #fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:1026;
> fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php-fcgi.sock;
> }
> ================================
>
> To spawn fastcgi I have a script under /opt/etc/init.d/ to start php-fcgi and bind it to a unix socket:
>
> FCGISOCKET="/tmp/php-fcgi.sock"
>
> This has worked fine, but now I want to also be able to process cgi-bin/routers2.cgi for graphing some mrtg data and I am not sure if I need to install anything else and/or how to configure nginx. This is what I have tried adding to nginx.conf, after some google searching and head scratching:
> ================================
> location ~ ^/cgi-bin/.*\.cgi$ {
> gzip off;
> fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php-fcgi.sock;
> #fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/nginx/cgiwrap-dispatch.sock;
> fastcgi_index index.cgi;
> fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
> fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
> fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
> fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
> fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
> #fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1;
> #fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx;
> #fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
> #fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri;
> #fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri;
> #fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root;
> #fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;
> #fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;
> #fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port;
> #fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr;
> #fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port;
> #fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name;
> }
> ================================
>
> However, instead of the browser showing the result of the *.cgi script, it just loads up the content of the file. Any idea what I need to do to enable nginx to process cgi files - *without* adding a separate web server to do this, but using some fastcgi method instead?
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>