On 9 April 2010 13:39, Jeff Trawick <traw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Darren Garvey <darren.gar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 31 March 2010 15:49, Jeff Trawick <traw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:05 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. > >> <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > >> > On 3/31/2010 5:41 AM, Jeff Trawick wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Darren Garvey > >> >> <darren.gar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> >>> Does anyone know if there is any other way to communicate with > >> >>> mod_fcgid on Windows besides anonymous pipes? > > >> > Isn't httpd 2.3 alpha mod_proxy_scgi ment to do this? > > >> mod_proxy_fcgi at least ;) (I meant to add that earlier) > >> > >> mod_proxy_* is httpd's way to route/loadbalance/manage connections to > >> externally managed servers of various types > > > Ahh, this might be what I'm looking for. Is > > http://mproxyfcgi.sourceforge.net/ the same thing? It looks like > > mod_proxy_fcgi is in trunk now but this link has a user guide. :) > > hmmm, looks like the same idea (hopefully that's a good sign)... > mod_proxy_fcgid in httpd trunk was started from scratch some 4 yrs > ago... >
Ok so, does mod_proxy_fcgid in trunk work? It would be nice to test my FastCGI code with an external configuration (with async I/O) on Windows. For now I'm just using pipes which - apart from blocking on read/write - seem to work fine. > > Does mod_proxy_fcgi set FCGI_WEB_SERVER_ADDRS as per the FastCGI spec? > > That should be set when the TCP-based FastCGI application is spawned > and checked when a new connection from the web server/gateway is > accepted? > > I see PHP logic to check it, but spawn-fcgi (Lighttpd) and fcgistarter > (httpd) don't handle that automatically. (I think you'd need to > create a wrapper for your app that sets it, then tell > spawn-fcgi/fcgistarter/whatever to run the wrapper.) > Yes, of course. Silly question now I think about it. This is an installation-specific configuration variable, I guess PassEnv should do too. Thanks for your help. Cheers, Darren
