Nginx - Use Perl Script2013/07/08

	Configure Nginx to execute Perl script. This example shows to use fcgiwrap + spawn-fcgi.
[1]	Install some packages first.

[root@www ~]#

yum --enablerepo=epel -y install spawn-fcgi fcgi-devel

# install from EPEL

[root@www ~]#

yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"

[2]	Install fcgiwrap

[root@www ~]#

wget http://github.com/gnosek/fcgiwrap/tarball/master -O fcgiwrap.tar.gz

[root@www ~]#

tar zxvf fcgiwrap.tar.gz

[root@www ~]#

cd gnosek-fcgiwrap-*

[root@www gnosek-fcgiwrap-4b2151e]#

autoreconf -i

[root@www gnosek-fcgiwrap-4b2151e]#

./configure

[root@www gnosek-fcgiwrap-4b2151e]#

make

[root@www gnosek-fcgiwrap-4b2151e]#

make install

install -d -m 755 /usr/local/sbin
install -m 755 fcgiwrap /usr/local/sbin
install -d -m 755 /usr/local/man/man8
install -m 644 fcgiwrap.8 /usr/local/man/man8

[3]	Configure Nginx

[root@www ~]#

vi /etc/sysconfig/spawn-fcgi

# add at the last

OPTIONS="-u nginx -g nginx -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9001 -P /var/run/spawn-fcgi.pid -- /usr/local/sbin/fcgiwrap"

[root@www ~]#

vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

# add follows in the "server" section

    location ~ \.pl|cgi$ {
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9001;
        fastcgi_index  index.cgi;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    }

[root@www ~]#

/etc/rc.d/init.d/nginx restart

Stopping nginx: [ OK ]
Starting nginx: [ OK ]
[root@www ~]#

/etc/rc.d/init.d/spawn-fcgi start

Starting spawn-fcgi: [ OK ]
[root@www ~]#

chkconfig spawn-fcgi on

[4]	Create a CGI test script and make sure CGI works or not. It's Ok if following page is shown normally.

[root@www ~]#

vi /usr/share/nginx/html/index.cgi

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html>\n<body>\n";
print "<div style=\"width: 100%; font-size: 40px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;\">\n";
print "CGI Test Page";
print "\n</div>\n";
print "</body>\n</html>\n";

[root@www ~]#

chmod 705 /usr/share/nginx/html/index.cgi

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