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Cgi is the common gateway interface, used for interactive webpages.

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Can advanced web servers be faster than basic web servers?

A bsic web server such as python SimpleHTTPServer or THTTPD reads static files with least process; thus is quite fast. Normally, adding more features to create an advanced web server (but still lightweight such as nginx) will slow down this…
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Changing server API from CGI to FastCGI

I have a server set up on CentOS and I need to change the API from CGI to FCGI (Someone else set this up initially) for x-cache to work (we need this as we have a TV appearance on monday and are expecting high-load). The server is a dedicated Dell…
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Execute CGI script as specific user with Apache

I want to run a specific (perl) CGI script on my webserver. This works reasonable, but it would work immensely better if the CGI script would be running as the currently authenticated user. Is there a way to do that, e.g. with a wrapper and…
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Are there benefits in using CGI in a large scale Apache2 server or should I just use FASTCGI?

I have a web product done in PHP that theoretically should support a lot of users. Problem is, I just left the apache as it is and found out its just running as CGI. Is this very wrong and I should do it in fastcgi or just leave it as it is?
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how to spawn php-cgi automatically when it exits?

I am using php-cgi on ubuntu(with nginx), and the command to start it is: spawn-fcgi -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9100 -f /usr/bin/php-cgi -P /var/run/fastcgi-php.pid but sometimes the php-cgi process will exit automatically, and I need to start it manually. Is…
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PHP as a CGI binary vs. PHP as an Apache module

What are the benefits of running PHP as a CGI binary compared to running PHP as an Apache module? Are there: Security benefits? Stability benefits? Performance benefits? I've always installed and used PHP as an Apache module so I'm curious if…
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How to add a pool to FPM (nginx) without reload/restart fpm itself?

Im building an environment (on a ubuntu 10.04.02 machine) to handle a website with many (should support at least 1000) subdomains, each of them served by a different FPM pool, with a different user. So nothing new; My problem is to create (and…
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Apache mod_perl vs. mod_cgi: How do I decide which to use?

What factors should I consider when deciding whether to use Apache's mod_perl or mod_cgi, when configuring an existing web application?
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Is there an alternative to cgi/fastcgi

Just curious to know, is there any other alternative to cgi/fastcgi?
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Selective setuid root or running an application as root ? (web server/cgi context)

Well we have an in house server manager (like Webmin, only more specific), comprising of a bunch of C CGI programs and CGI Perl scripts, some of which require root privileges (adding system users, managing passwords, dealing with mail queues etc. )…
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.htaccess RewriteEngine on breaks CGI Application

My .htaccess file is in the root directory of my website, and I narrowed down a problem to the single line of code RewriteEngine on. How do I know it's this piece of code? Because I deleted the entire .htaccess file except for RewriteEngine on as a…
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Error trying to get munin running as a cgi

I'm just cutting my teeth getting munin running (latest 1.4.1 on centos) . It's working but I want it as a cgi frontend so I'm not generating graphs constantly when I look at them a few times a day (obvious). I've followed the directions and keep…
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Returning HTTP status 204 for GET /generate_204 using uhttpd?

To deal with the Android captive portal detection for my specific setup, I need to return an HTTP status code 204 whenever I get a GET request for /generate_204. I currently use uhttpd as my webserver, so I'm wondering whether this is possible to do…
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Running Web.py as an IIS CGI Script

I recently wrote a web.py-based stand alone web service. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the service has to run through IIS. I've heard that it's possible to run web.py as a CGI in IIS, but I'm having trouble setting it up. I can run Python CGI…
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Modify file before sending to cgi handler

I'm making a portable installation of Apache to run Bugzilla. This installation has a portable version of Perl and it's the one I want mod_cgi to use. However, mod_cgi doesn't have any way to configure the intended binary (or binaries per file…
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