lighttpd fastcgi documentation not working

[buggerone@…]

The admin part is not accessible with the configuration described.
With default configuration, django links to /mysite.fcgi/admin wich is rewrited (by lighttpd) as /mysite.fcgi/mysite.fcgi/admin

the setting FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME needs to be set to "". This should be described in documentation.

[aszlig]

Hm, this whole FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME thingy was always required before and is documented at the bottom of the deployment documentation.

Maybe it's a good idea to avoid FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME by changing the documentation example to something like:

server.modules += (
        "mod_alias",
        "mod_fastcgi",
)

server.document-root = "/home/user/public_html"

fastcgi.server = (
    "/" => ((
        "socket" => "/home/user/mysite.sock",
        "check-local" => "disable",
        "fix-root-scriptname" => "enable",
    )),
)

$HTTP["url"] =~ "/(?:media(?:$|/)|favicon\.ico$|... whatever you want to serve directly ...)" {
    fastcgi.server = ()
    alias.url = (
        "/media"  => "/home/user/django/contrib/admin/media/",
    )
}

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Sounds like there might be something going on here that should be improved, but it's not just a matter of updating the example. We need someone who knows what they are doing to do a full review of the fastcgi docs.

[Russell Keith-Magee]

#11754 was a duplicate that indicated some other problems with the fastcgi docs.

[Gabriel Hurley]

I've got a reasonable knowledge of lighttpd + fcgi (all my live sites are currently deployed on it). I'll review these docs along with the variety of other fcgi-related docs tickets that are currently accepted.

[onelson@…]

CC'ing myself so I remember to add something regarding init.d scripts for site daemons. Had issues with permissions using unix sockets (unless managed via services). I'm imagining socket is preferred for those running the fcgi process on the same host as the web server.

[jedie]

Replying to aszlig:

Hm, this whole FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME thingy was always required before and is documented at the bottom of the deployment documentation.

Yes, it is documented, but at the bottom of the page. And that's why i didn't see it :(
IMHO it's a good idea to put a info box in the section of lighttpd setup, directly under the lighttpd config example.

The example from aszlig doesn't work good with multiple sites, isn't it?

[Tim Graham]

FastCGI is being deprecated.