FastCGI-Serve - A webserver for FastCGI

This is a dedicated webserver to serve applications over HTTP using FastCGI interface, allowing for example to run (and test) PHP applications with different Zend PHP and HHVM side by side.

Why? I couldn't get hhvm and PHP to run side by side with Apache on my Ubuntu system. There is probably a simple solution out there to do what this project does, but in the interest of furthering my #golang experience I thought this was a good project to built.

WARNING: This server is not meant for production.

Installation

You need go installed on your system, then call:

$ go get github.com/beberlei/fastcgi-serve

Add $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH in ~/.bashrc to make the fastcgi-serve command available.

You need PHP-FPM or HHVM on your system as well and listening for fastcgi connections on 127.0.0.1:9000 (it does that by default).

Don't forget to run either /etc/init.d/php-fpm start or /etc/init.d/hhvm start.

Usage

You can keep your Apache/Nginx setup with this proxy and start a webserver (defaults to localhost:8080) for a given document root (defaults to current working directory).

$ fastcgi-serve --document-root=/var/www --listen=127.0.0.1:8080
Listening on http://localhost:8080
Document root is /var/www
Press Ctrl-C to quit.

Configuration

The following settings are available:

• --document-root - The document root to serve files from (default: current working directory)
• --listen - The webserver bind address to listen to (default:127.0.0.1)
• --server - The FastCGI server to listen to
• --server-port The FastCGI server port to listen to
• --index The default script to call when request path cannot be served with an existing file

There also support to load additional environment variables into each request. Create an .env file in the document root with key vaue pairs of options:

FOO=BAR

Acknowledgements

• Bundles fastcgi client library by Junqing Tan ([email protected]) as dependency
• http://code.google.com/p/go-fastcgi-client/