fastcgi under Mapserver MS4W environment

[Jeff McKenna]

Comments inline:


John Mitchell wrote:
> 
>       Hi,
> 
> I would like to use fastcgi for the MS4W environment, and I have 
> explored the following link:
> 
> 
>       http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/fastcgi
> 
> 
>       which says the following:
>       <http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/fastcgi/#table-of-contents>
> 
> 
>       FastCGI on Win32
>       <http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/fastcgi/#table-of-contents>
> 
> 
>         MS4W Users
>         <http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/fastcgi/#table-of-contents>
> 
> MS4W (MapServer for Windows) <http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/> >= version 
> 2.2.2 contains MapServer compiled with FastCGI support. However MS4W 
> does not contain the required Apache module mod_fastcgi, because the 
> module must be compiled to work with the Apache 2.2.x series (MS4W 
> contains Apache 2.2.4). If you compile this please contribute it back to 
> the MS4W mailing list 
> <http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/ms4w-users>.

That doc is uptodate and correct for this.

> 
> 
> It appears from above that I need module mod_fastcgi compiled.  Has 
> anyone done this?
> 

No one has contributed this yet.

> 
> Is fast-cgi running within mapserver when setup in the following way: 
> MS4W setup with latest FWTools bin content copied into MS4W 
> apache\cgi-bin. I run mapserv -v and it says fastcgi.  Is their anything 
> else that I have to do?
> 

Using the latest MS4W out-of-the-box will also give you that mapserv -v 
fastcgi message.

Also, are you aware that MS4W has it's own mailing list?  (you even 
included the link in your email)

jeff



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