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Hi,
I installed Hiawatha (webserver) on port 8000 and started a fastcgi program ( see below) called fastcgiperl on another server(fcgi1server) to run in the background. The program runs fine (except for a quirk: a counter i have in my program increments by 2 for every request) . I am able to view the fastcgi program as long as I use intranet ip address.

I run the server on 192.168.2.10 on port 8000, the fastcgiperl run on 192.168.2.11

I am able to view the fastcgiperl output when i use http://192.168.2.10:8000/fastcgiperl

I wanted to make this program available over internet. I have a firewall and the two machines sit behind the firewall. Let us say my web ip address is 123.45.6.78. I used portforwarding to forward requests to port8000 to 192.168.2.10. I am able to load the index.html by:
http://123.45.6.78:8000

However when I try: http://123.45.6.78:8000/fastcgiperl, it returns "Not found 404" error page.

Am I missing anything? Am I supposed to open ports for fastcgi server too? It does not make sense.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I do love you Hiawatha for its simplicity!


Hiawatha version: I used a freebsd port in january 2013 ( How do I find out the version?)
Operating System: freebsd

#fastcgi.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use FCGI;

my $socket = FCGI::OpenSocket(":2005", 5);
my $request = FCGI::Request(\*STDIN, \*STDOUT, \*STDERR, \%ENV, $socket);
my $counter =0;
while ($request->Accept() >= 0) {
        print "Content-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\n";

        print $ENV{"REQUEST_METHOD"}." ".$ENV{"REQUEST_URI"};
        if ((my $param = $ENV{"QUERY_STRING"}) ne "") {
                print "?".$param;
        }
        print "Counting".$counter."\n";
        print " ".$ENV{"SERVER_PROTOCOL"};
        $counter=$counter+1;
}

FCGI::CloseSocket($socket);

Do requests for 192.168.2.10 and 123.45.6.78 end up in the same virtual host? Can you show me your configuration file?

Hi Hugo,

Here is my config file.

Thanks a ton for looking!

Yag

# Hiawatha main configuration file
#


# GENERAL SETTINGS
#
#ServerId = www-data
ConnectionsTotal = 150
ConnectionsPerIP = 10
SystemLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/system.log
GarbageLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/garbage.log


# BINDING SETTINGS
# A binding is where a client can connect to.
#
Binding {
        Port = 8000
#       Interface = 127.0.0.1
#       MaxKeepAlive = 30
#       TimeForRequest = 3,20
}
#
#Binding {
#       Port = 443
#       Interface = ::1
#       MaxKeepAlive = 30
#       TimeForRequest = 3,20
#       SSLcertFile = hiawatha.pem
#}


# BANNING SETTINGS
# Deny service to clients who misbehave.
#
#BanOnGarbage = 300
#BanOnMaxPerIP = 60
#BanOnMaxReqSize = 300
#KickOnBan = yes
#RebanDuringBan = yes


# COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE (CGI) SETTINGS
# These settings can be used to run CGI applications. Use the 'php-fcgi'
# tool to start PHP as a FastCGI daemon.
#
#CGIhandler = /usr/local/bin/perl:pl
#CGIhandler = /usr/local/bin/php-cgi:php
#CGIhandler = /usr/local/bin/python:py
#CGIhandler = /usr/local/bin/ruby:rb
#CGIhandler = /usr/local/bin/ssi-cgi:shtml
#CGIextension = cgi
#
#FastCGIserver {
#       FastCGIid = PHP5
#       ConnectTo = 127.0.0.1:2005
#       Extension = php
#}
FastCGIserver {
        FastCGIid = QFastCGI
        ConnectTo = 192.168.2.12:2005
        Extension = f1
}
FastCGIserver {
        FastCGIid = QFastCGI2
        ConnectTo = 192.168.2.12:2006
        Extension = f2
}
# URL TOOLKIT
# This URL toolkit rule was made for the Banshee PHP framework, which
# can be downloaded from http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/banshee
#
#UrlToolkit {
#       ToolkitID = banshee
#       RequestURI isfile Return
#       Match ^/(css|files|images|js|slimstat)($|/) Return
#       Match ^/(favicon.ico|robots.txt|sitemap.xml)$ Return
#       Match .*\?(.*) Rewrite /index.php?$1
#       Match .* Rewrite /index.php
#}
UrlToolkit {
        ToolkitID = app_toolkit
        RequestURI exists Return
        Match .f1 UseFastCGI QFastCGI
        Match .f2 UseFastCGI QFastCGI2
}

# DEFAULT WEBSITE
# It is wise to use your IP address as the hostname of the default website
# and give it a blank webpage. By doing so, automated webscanners won't find
# your possible vulnerable website.
#
Hostname = 123.45.6.78 #127.0.0.1
WebsiteRoot = /usr/local/www/hiawatha
StartFile = index.html
AccessLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/access.log
ErrorLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/error.log
#ErrorHandler = 404:/error.cgi


# VIRTUAL HOSTS
# Use a VirtualHost section to declare the websites you want to host.
#
#VirtualHost {
#       Hostname = www.my-domain.com
#       WebsiteRoot = /var/www/my-domain/public
#       StartFile = index.php
#       AccessLogfile = /var/www/my-domain/log/access.log
#       ErrorLogfile = /var/www/my-domain/log/error.log
#       TimeForCGI = 5
#       UseFastCGI = PHP5
#       UseToolkit = banshee
#}

VirtualHost {
        Hostname =192.168.2.11
        WebsiteRoot = /usr/local/www/hiawatha
        AccessLogfile = /var/log/app/access.log
        ErrorLogfile = /var/log/app/error.log
        TimeForCGI = 5
        UseToolkit = app_toolkit
}

VirtualHost {
        Hostname = 123.45.6.78
        WebsiteRoot = /usr/local/www/hiawatha
        AccessLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/access.log
        ErrorLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/error.log
        TimeForCGI = 5
        UseToolkit = app_toolkit
        UseFastCGI = QFastCGI
}
# DIRECTORY SETTINGS
# You can specify some settings per directory.
#
#Directory {
#       Path = /home/baduser
#       ExecuteCGI = no
#       UploadSpeed = 10,2
#}

The hostname of the last virtual host is the same as the default website hostname, so that virtual host is never used.

Hugo,

Thanks! It worked. I changed the host name to be different and the virtual host settings work.

Thanks for your time!

Yag