[Benchmarking] MapServer and FastCGI

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

I succeeded in doing port forward to access the apache on the
benchmarking system from the outside world.  For me it is:

   ssh -l fwarmerdam -p 2221 64.222.187.168 -L 8081:localhost:80

My next step is to get fastcgi support working.  I see that mapserv
is already built with fastcgi support, but the new RedHat install does
not include fastcgi enabling.  I successfully copied the already built
mod_fastcgi.so into the modules directory and added some config stuff
per:

   http://www.mapserver.org/optimization/fastcgi.html

in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.

However, when I restart apache and make a fastcgi request I get:

[Mon Sep 07 18:55:22 2009] [crit] (13)Permission denied: FastCGI: can't create 
(dynamic) server "/var/www/cgi-bin/mapserv.fcgi": bind() failed 
[/etc/httpd/logs/fastcgi/dynamic/21101a51ad85e2f709e90c65b23e7e6a]
[Mon Sep 07 18:55:27 2009] [alert] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: 
FastCGI: failed to connect to (dynamic) server "/var/www/cgi-bin/mapserv.fcgi": 
something is seriously wrong, any chance the socket/named_pipe directory was 
removed?, see the FastCgiIpcDir directive
[Mon Sep 07 18:55:27 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] FastCGI: incomplete 
headers (0 bytes) received from server "/var/www/cgi-bin/mapserv.fcgi"

I have created the /etc/httpd/logs/fastcgi directory and the dynamic
subdirectory and made them permission 777 but still I have a problem.
I presume there is some extra layer of security interfering.  Any ideas?

Best regards,
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