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Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:45:41 +0200
From: Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be>
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On 07/06/2010 08:28, Richard Hector wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm getting really confused - the docs on FastCGI seem a little skimpy,
> and other resources are how various people may have made it work, and I
> haven't managed to get a configuration that works yet.
>
> My objective is to run a particular PHP site as a particular user, for
> security reasons. My understanding is that I can't use SuExec for
> mod_php, so I have to use CGI or FastCGI, of which FastCGI is faster :-)
>
> It seems that FastCgiExternalServer keeps everything nicely separated,
> so that's the choice I'm going with at the moment.
>
> Now is the point at which I get lost, because there are so many
> different configs thrown up by google.
>
> Some use Alias directives, some use AddType and Action directives; some
> use real-looking paths for the first argument to FastCgiExternalServer
> and others don't.
>
> I'm pretty sure I got to a point where everything worked, except that a
> url with no path didn't return index.php - the DirectoryIndex directive
> appeared to have no effect, and php tried to run with no content.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have that config working at the moment; I've
> hacked around a bit aimlessly and lost track - and anyway, I should
> really replicate it without client details before posting a config on
> here.
>
> So what I guess I'm asking for is a simple config that works, of which I
> can ask explanations of the bits I don't understand - I think that's the
> real problem with all the bits I've found, is that there are minimal
> explanations of _why_ a particular directive is used, and why.
>
> I'll try to get an experimental config up a bit later (hometime here
> now).
>
> Oh - the other thing is I need to support this in a Name based
> VirtualHost - and only one. The other sites should continue to work on
> mod_php, if that's possible.
>
> I'm running Debian Lenny (Apache 2.2.9, PHP 5.2.6).
>
> That's probably a big fail for 'Asking smart questions' -
> sorry :-( Hopefully I'll be more coherent tomorrow, but I figured I'd
> take advantage of my timezone difference from most of the world by
> getting this out there now :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
>

I answered something like this on the fbsd mailing list a year ago: 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-July/202133.html

hope it helps ..

>
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