Nginx and Perl-FastCGI on Arch Linux
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The nginx web server is a fast, lightweight server designed to efficiently handle the needs of both low and high traffic websites. Although commonly used to serve static content, it capable of handling dynamically generated content. The process described in this document centers on the deployment of a FastCGI wrapper for CGI. This makes it possible to deploy all dynamic content that communicates using the CGI protocol. Typically this kind of script is written in Perl, but other CGI scripts will be compatible with this solution.
Set the Hostname
Before you begin installing and configuring the components described in this guide, please make sure you’ve followed our instructions for setting your hostname. Issue the following commands to make sure it is set properly:
hostname
hostname -f
The first command should show your short hostname, and the second should show your fully qualified domain name (FQDN).
Install Required Packages
Issue the following command to install the required packages from the Arch Linux repositories:
pacman -Sy
pacman -S pacman
pacman -S nginx fcgi fcgiwrap spawn-fcgi
Edit the /etc/rc.conf file, adding “nginx” and “fcgiwrap” to the “DEAMONS=” line as shown in the following excerpt:
- File: /etc/rc.conf
1DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond sshd ntpd nginx fcgiwrap)
Configure the FastCGI Wrapper
Now, edit the /etc/conf.d/fcgiwrap file to resemble the following example:
- File: /etc/conf.d/fcgiwrap
1 2 3 4 5 6 7SPAWNER='/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi' FCGI_ADDRESS='127.0.0.1' FCGI_PORT='9001' FCGI_USER='http' FCGI_GROUP='http' FCGI_EXTRA_OPTIONS='' SPAWNER_ARGS="-a $FCGI_ADDRESS -p $FCGI_PORT -u $FCGI_USER -g $FCGI_GROUP $FCGI_EXTRA_OPTIONS -- /usr/sbin/fcgiwrap"
Issue the following command to start the FastCGI wrapper for the first time:
/etc/rc.d/fcgiwrap start
Configure Virtual Hosting
Create directories for your web content and logs by issuing the following commands. Be sure to replace “example.com” with your domain name.
mkdir -p /srv/http/example.com/public_html
mkdir /srv/http/example.com/logs
Issue the following commands to create nginx virtual host directories:
mkdir /etc/nginx/conf/sites-available
mkdir /etc/nginx/conf/sites-enabled
Create a virtual host configuration file for your site. Be sure to replace “example.com” with your domain name in the following example configuration.
- File: /etc/nginx/conf/sites-available/www.example.com
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19server { listen 80; server_name example.com www.example.com; access_log /srv/http/example.com/logs/access.log; error_log /srv/http/example.com/logs/error.log; location / { root /srv/http/example.com/public_html; index index.html index.htm; } location ~ \.cgi$ { gzip off; include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9001; fastcgi_index index.cgi; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /srv/http/example.com/public_html$fastcgi_script_name; } }
This example assumes that all CGI scripts will end with the characters .cgi. If your scripts have some other extension (e.g. .pl or .plx) modify the example to support that. If you want nginx to use the CGI script as an index page, add index.cgi to the index line of the location / block.
Issue the following commands to enable your new virtual host:
cd /etc/nginx/conf/sites-enabled/
ln -s /etc/nginx/conf/sites-available/www.example.com
Edit the file /etc/nginx/conf/nginx.conf, inserting the line include /etc/nginx/conf/sites-enabled/*; at the start of the http { block, as shown in the following file excerpt:
- File: /etc/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
1 2 3http { include /etc/nginx/conf/sites-enabled/*;
Issue the following command to start nginx:
/etc/rc.d/nginx start
Test Perl with FastCGI
Create a file called “test.cgi” in your site’s “public_html” directory with the following contents:
- File: /srv/http/example.com/public\\_html/test.cgi
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14#!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-type:text/html\n\n"; print <<EndOfHTML; <html><head><title>Perl Environment Variables</title></head> <body> <h1>Perl Environment Variables</h1> EndOfHTML foreach $key (sort(keys %ENV)) { print "$key = $ENV{$key}<br>\n"; } print "</body></html>";
Make the script executable by issuing the following command:
chmod a+x /srv/http/example.com/public_html/test.cgi
When you visit http://www.example.com/test.cgi in your browser, your Perl environment variables should be shown. Congratulations, you’ve configured the nginx web server to use Perl with FastCGI for dynamic content!
More Information
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