Help with fastcgi

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I'm really frustrated.
Is there a site where an example for httpd.conf using ruby fastcgi?

I've looked through all of the threads on fastcgi at ruby-talk. Only found one example for using fastcgi.

I'm using Apache 2.x

Here is my current httpd.conf relating to fastcgi

LoadModule fastcgi_module modules/mod_fastcgi.so

FastCgiIpcDir logs/fastcgi
ScriptAlias /fcgi-bin/ "/var/www/fcgi/ebw/"

<Directory "/var/www/fcgi/ebw">
     AllowOverride All
     Options None
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
     SetHandler fastcgi-script
</Directory>

AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi

when I use my browser to go to http://someDomain/fcgi-bin/login.fcgi

I get an internal server error. The error(s) are:

[Thu Oct 27 11:02:57 2005] [crit] (13)Permission denied: FastCGI: can't create (dynamic) server "/var/www/fcgi/ebw/login.fcgi": bind() failed [/etc/httpd/logs/fastcgi/dynamic/d2d6483b03d06cd99ec43408de2a0766]
[Thu Oct 27 11:03:02 2005] [alert] [client 216.27.164.161] (13)Permission denied: FastCGI: failed to connect to (dynamic) server "/var/www/fcgi/ebw/login.fcgi": something is seriously wrong, any chance the socket/named_pipe directory was removed?, see the FastCgiIpcDir directive
[Thu Oct 27 11:03:02 2005] [error] [client 216.27.164.161] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server "/var/www/fcgi/ebw/login.fcgi"

Any one have a clue as to what I need to do?

Ernie

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Ernest Ellingson wrote:

I'm really frustrated.
Is there a site where an example for httpd.conf using ruby fastcgi?

I've looked through all of the threads on fastcgi at ruby-talk. Only found one example for using fastcgi.

I'm using Apache 2.x

Here is my current httpd.conf relating to fastcgi

LoadModule fastcgi_module modules/mod_fastcgi.so

FastCgiIpcDir logs/fastcgi
ScriptAlias /fcgi-bin/ "/var/www/fcgi/ebw/"

<Directory "/var/www/fcgi/ebw">
    AllowOverride All
    Options None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    SetHandler fastcgi-script
</Directory>

AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi

I figured this out after some serious head scratching.
Here is a short description of getting ruby_fcgi and mod_fastcgi for Apache to work.

In httpd.conf you must have something like this

<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>

     # URIs that begin with /fcgi-bin/, are found in /var/www/fcgi-bin/
     Alias /fcgi-bin/ /var/www/fcgi-bin/
     FastCgiIpcDir /var/fcgi/
     #FastCgiConfig -autoUpdate

     # Anything in here is handled as a "dynamic" server if not defined as"static" or "external"
     <Directory /var/www/fcgi-bin/>
         Order allow,deny
         Allow from all
         SetHandler fastcgi-script
         Options +ExecCGI
     </Directory>

     AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi .fpl

···

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Start a "static" server at httpd initialization

     FastCgiServer /var/www/ebw/echo

  Alias /ebw/ /var/www/ebw/
</IfModule>
------------End of httpd.conf--------------------------------

----------sample scripts---------------------
A Dynamic fcgi script
  It starts and continues to run when browser
         points to http://somedomain/fci-bin/ebw/echo.fcgi

cat /var/www/fcgi-bin/ebw/echo.fcgi
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
   require 'rubygems'
   require 'fcgi'
   require 'cgi'
   FCGI.each_cgi {|cgi|
     puts cgi.header
     puts "Connecting from #{cgi.remote_addr}<br>"
     puts "Time is now #{Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")}"
   }

A Static fcgi script
  It starts when the apache webserver starts
  It continues to run
  browser points to http://somedomain/ebw/echo #look at Alias in httpd.conf above.
cat /var/www/ebw/echo
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
   require 'rubygems'
   require 'fcgi'
   require 'cgi'
   FCGI.each_cgi {|cgi|
     puts cgi.header
     puts "Connecting from #{cgi.remote_addr}<br>"
     puts "Time is now #{Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")}"
   }

Ernie