Running CGI script on Nginx Web Server on FreeBSD

Yes CGI is an old technology. I encounter to be able run an old CGI script for testing on my development project. And i am using Nginx stack rather than install apache. So we can run CGI script with Nginx web server. Here how i do it and documenting it here.

on FreeBSD 9.0 server, we using fcgiwrap application.

#cd /usr/ports/www/fcgiwrap/
#make install clean

Then enable it to run in /etc/rc.conf  :

#echo "fcgiwrap_enable='YES'" >> /etc/rc.conf

Then start the fcgiwrap. it will be available in /var/run/fcgiwrap/fcgiwrap.sock

To use it, just redirect the script to be run with fcgiwrap.sock.

Here the nginx setup.

server {

      listen  80;
      server_name    login.freehostspotsystem.com;

      location / {
         root /usr/local/www/super/system/free;
         index index.html index.html;
      }
       
     location /cgi-bin/ 
     {
         gzip off;
         root /usr/local/www/super/system/free;
         fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap/fcgiwrap.sock;
         
         include /usr/local/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
         fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

     }

And put your cgi file in /usr/local/www/super/system/free/cgi-bin/login.cgi

so when user go to http://login.freehotspotsystem.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi  , user will got the page.

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