With apache ,I just put my binary under cgi-bin,how about nginx?
Does it support cgi at all?
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Nginx does not support CGI, because it does not spawn external processes. This is a design decision: Nginx is a high-performance web server and spawning an external process is rather expensive operation.
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why support of cgi means spawn external processes? – kernel May 28 '11 at 08:41
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@kernel because there's no way Nginx is going to embed a way to execute cgi. – Martin Fjordvald May 28 '11 at 09:43
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why can't nginx use the same way as executing PHP to execute cgi? – kernel May 28 '11 at 09:45
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1@kernel CGI (Common Gateway Interface) implies a script is executed by an HTTP server (RFC 3875, section 3.4: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3875.txt). Apache may execute a PHP script as CGI or using "mod_php" module (which is not CGI obviously) – Alexander Azarov May 28 '11 at 10:35
