Comments on: Windows Apache PHP FastCGI Setup

By: Dimas

Dimas — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:08:34 +0000

Ted, while I haven’t used this exact setup in years, Apache and FastCGI/FPM are still relevant, my article may be outdated, so I do encourage you and others to continue to search. However, the one tech I would recommend investing some time in would be “Docker”. Additionally, “nodejs” has interwoven itself into nearly every part of my dev process. Good luck!

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 18:04:39 +0000

I am beginning to return to web programming after a substantial hiatus (due to extreme illness) and am working on setting up Apache 2.4 along with all else I need for web programming. First question: “Has anything of significance changed in these packages or the server since this was written?”

Most of my web programming experience, from years ago, was done using Perl (which I am getting back to), but I also have an interest in PHP, python and ruby. I never had set up anything for cgi programming except mod_cgi. But I want to experiment with FastCGI, so this page is priceless to me. But what is the relation between this package (mod_fcgid) an modules I have seen, but not yet downloaded, such as mod_FastCGI, mod_perl, mod_php, mod_ruby, mod_python, &c. I want to strengthen my understanding of PHP and learn ruby and python.

I also want to do a bit of experimenting, testing and comparing each package that purports to provide FastCGI services (on my Windows box) with the ancient default of mod_cgi.

Also, I need to know, if anyone here knows, whether or not the FastCGI libraries will work properly with products out there such as WordPress.

Any guidance will be appreciated. Thanks.

By: Panayiotis Velisarakos

Panayiotis Velisarakos — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 20:55:16 +0000

Thanks a lot! This is the only guide that actually worked for me.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:51:31 +0000

Thanks for an easy-to-follow guide on this set-up. It is perfect for someone new to working with Apache.

I am having trouble understanding one part. In the Installation section step 4, you say to unpack the FastCGI files and place the manual and modules folders in the Apache directory. Those directories already exist. Should I assume I am to move files from the FastCGI directories into these folders as they fit? Can you elaborate a bit on where exactly these files go, please?

Thanks!

By: Ed Hillis

Ed Hillis — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:35:33 +0000

Thanks — very helpful!

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:11:19 +0000

I found I had to add Indexes and ExecCGI options to and also to the directory block for the document root in order to make this work.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:53:54 +0000

This might be late but gijs might be missing the ExecCGI option in his httpd directory configuration

By: Dimas

Dimas — Tue, 24 May 2011 18:49:46 +0000

@gijs, before trying to get started with your phpmyadmin, do a basic test with a phpinfo.php file. Apache config has never been my strong point, but I am persistent. You may need to get it to a working point and then slowly add/remove directives to see what works and what doesn’t. Additionally I have been puzzled at times and a reboot (for what ever reason) has helped clear issues.

By: gijs

gijs — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:37:18 +0000

I am having issues getting this to work, everything works fine but my website keeps saying Forbidden when I try to access a .php file

You don’t have permission to access /phpmyadmin/index.php on this server.

it works fine with index.html files so I suppose something is wrong with the php installation or something else? but I already tried editing the apache config and googling a lot with no success…

and yes I did do: DirectoryIndex index.php, idk how to fix this please help me.

By: Jay Mann

Jay Mann — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:56:03 +0000

You dimas! ..I mean ‘da Man’. 🙂

Worked great and fixed my ZendDebugger issue.

I am running Apache 2.217 with PHP5.3.6 VC9 NTS on Win Vista.

Thanks.