Fastcgi++

Nginx under Ubuntu 12.04

packages

• apt-get install g++
• apt-get install libboost-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-date-time-dev
• apt-get install libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-iostreams-dev
• apt-get install spawn-fcgi
• visit http://www.nongnu.org/fastcgipp/ , download fastcgi++-2.1.tar.bz2
• untar on server, cd to dir, make, sudo make install
• cd /usr/lib; ln -s /usr/local/lib/libfastcgipp.so; ln -s libfastcgipp.so libfastcgipp.so.2
• recompile the source and make sure ldd looks good

spawn-fcgi

• this runs as its own daemon; the init script is in the app directory
• cd /etc/init.d/; ln -s /home/deploy/shakes/app/shakes; update-rc.d shakes defaults
• for debugging, the spawn-fcgi command should look something like this:

spawn-fcgi -n -u deploy -d /home/deploy/shakes/app -s /home/deploy/shakes/tmp/shakes.sock -- /home/deploy/shakes/app/shakes.fcgi 

The "-n" flag keeps the process in the foreground and sends all output to the terminal.

nginx

• add something like this to nginx.conf:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name test.scottcamacmartin.org;
    root        /home/deploy/shakes/public;
    index       speak.html;
    location / {
        fastcgi_pass	unix:/home/deploy/shakes/tmp/shakes.sock;
        fastcgi_index	speak.html;
        include	        fastcgi_params;
    }
}

Apache under Ubuntu 10.04

• install apache2, awstats
• apt-get install g++ libboost-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-date-time-dev
• visit http://www.nongnu.org/fastcgipp/ , download fastcgi++-1.2.tar.bz2
• untar on server, cd to dir, make, sudo make install
• cd /usr/lib; ln -s /usr/local/lib/libfastcgipp.so
• restore /etc/apache2/mods-available/fastcgi.{load,conf} from backup
• restore /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_fastcgi.so from backup
• mkdir -p /var/lib/apache2/fastcgi; chown www-data.www-data /var/lib/apache2/fastcgi
• a2dissite default; a2ensite mysite1 mysite2; a2enmod alias rewrite fastcgi
• run /var/www/myapp/app/make to rebuild myapp.fcgi, check with ldd myapp.fcgi
• restore /etc/awstats/awstats.{conf.local,myapp.conf}, /etc/apache2/stats.passwd
• restore /var/lib/awstats/*, /var/log/apache2/myapp-access.log, /etc/cron.daily/awstats
• restart apache