In this post I will show you how to serve CGI scripts with Nginx on CentOS 6 using fcgiwrap.The article is designed that nginx is already set up and running as a service.
As there’s no fcgiwrap package for CentOS 6.0, you must build it yourself.
First install some prerequisites:
yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
yum install fcgi-devel
Now you can build fcgiwrap:
cd /usr/local/src/
git clone git://github.com/gnosek/fcgiwrap.git
cd fcgiwrap
autoreconf -i
./configure
make
make install
This installs fcgiwrap to /usr/local/sbin/fcgiwrap.
Install the spawn-fcgi package which allows you to run fcgiwrap as a daemon:
yum install spawn-fcgi
Then modify your new spawn-fcgi configuration in /etc/sysconfig/ to look like this:
FCGI_SOCKET=/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket
FCGI_PROGRAM=/usr/local/sbin/fcgiwrap
FCGI_USER=nginx
FCGI_GROUP=nginx
FCGI_EXTRA_OPTIONS="-M 0700"
OPTIONS="-u $FCGI_USER -g $FCGI_GROUP -s $FCGI_SOCKET -S $FCGI_EXTRA_OPTIONS -F 1 -P /var/run/spawn-fcgi.pid -- $FCGI_PROGRAM"
Now you can start it like any other service. Don’t forget to add it to chkconfig
chkconfig –levels 2345 spawn-fcgi on
depending on your configuration
The last thing you need to do is to write the nginx configuration.
location /cgi-bin/ {
gzip off;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}