[OpenLayers-Users] Re: proxy.cgi with FastCGI (Apache)

Mon Mar 14 07:01:52 EDT 2011

Hey everyone,

Finally I solved the problem using proxy.php.

I got the file from the last Mapbuilder app, and its just copy the
proxy.php file in my /var/www/ directory.
In openlayers edit/add the line
     OpenLayers.ProxyHost = "/proxy.php?url="

In my case I needed install php5_curl, a php module, to make the
proxy.php works.

regards,
oscar

2011/3/13 Òscar Vidal Calbet <oscarblo at gmail.com>:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I'm using OpenLayers with proxy.cgi (/usr/lib/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi) to
> access data in http://localhost:8080 from Apache2. All was working
> fine until I installed FastCGI module for Apache2 (Im using Mapserver
> too).
>
> So now Im getting the following error, from the Apache log in
> /var/log/apache2/error.log
>
> [Sun Mar 13 14:20:16 2011] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
> "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi" (pid 6853) terminated by calling exit
> with status '1'
> [Sun Mar 13 14:20:21 2011] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
> "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi" restarted (pid 6854)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi", line 26, in <module>
>    method = os.environ["REQUEST_METHOD"]
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/UserDict.py", line 22, in __getitem__
>    raise KeyError(key)
> KeyError: 'REQUEST_METHOD'
> [Sun Mar 13 14:20:21 2011] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
> "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi" (pid 6854) terminated by calling exit
> with status '1'
> [Sun Mar 13 14:20:21 2011] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
> "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi" has failed to remain running for 30
> seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to
> 600 seconds
>
> And in the request (GET proxy.cgi?url=...):
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
> <html><head> <title>500 Internal Server Error</title> </head><body>
> <h1>Internal Server Error</h1>
> <p>The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and
> was unable to complete your request.</p>
> <p>Please contact the server administrator, webmaster at localhost and
> inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might
> have done that may have caused the error.</p>
> <p>More information about this error may be available in the server
> error log.</p>
> <hr>
> <address>Apache/2.2.16 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80</address>
> </body></html>
>
> I can give more useful information, jut tell me what, :)
>
>
> My question:
>
> I need edit the proxy.cgi file to adapt it to FastCGI? or maybe its
> just that proxy.cgi doesn't work with FastCGI?
> If someone had used it (proxy.cgi + FastCGI) before I will be
> thankfully to know how.
>
>
> Thanks!
> Oscar
>
> PS: sorry my poor english
>