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Can any one make a step by step howto for installing php5 with FastCGI on FreeBSD?
This HOWTO [www.hiawatha-webserver.org] is not specifically for FreeBSD.

Thanks in advance.

Hiawatha version: 7.4
Operating System: FreeBSD 8.2

I'm not an expert on FreeBSD, but my guess is that it will be something like going to the right directory in the ports tree and then doing a "make config" and a "make install". But my advice is to ask this question on the FreeBSD forum in order to get the best answer.

Thanks Hugo,
the installation with ports itself is quite simple, but I can't get it to run php5 with FastCGI and Hiawatha

Are you able to start PHP as a FastCGI daemon via php-fcgi?

I do not understand it, with Debian it was much easier

ServerBSD# sockstat -4 | less
USER     COMMAND    PID   FD PROTO  LOCAL ADDRESS         FOREIGN ADDRESS
nobody   hiawatha   2088  3  tcp4   *:80                  *:*
nobody   hiawatha   2088  4  tcp4   61.59.78.41:56117    10.0.0.101:2005
www      php-cgi    2066  0  tcp4   61.59.78.41:2005     *:*
root     sshd       1782  3  tcp4   61.59.78.41:22     99.152.34.147:25323
root     sshd       1683  3  tcp4   61.59.78.41:22     *:*
mysql    mysqld     1645  14 tcp4   127.0.0.1:3306        *:*
root     ntpd       722   20 udp4   *:123                 *:*
root     ntpd       722   22 udp4   61.59.78.41:123      *:*
root     ntpd       722   25 udp4   127.0.0.1:123         *:*
root     syslogd    508   7  udp4   *:514                 *:*

Here is HOWTO for FreeBSD [www.cyberciti.biz] but it does not work

Example given:

hiawatha.conf

FastCGIserver {
      FastCGIid = PHP5
      ConnectTo = 192.168.1.155:2005
      Extension = php
}

Install /www/spawn-fcgi and edit php-fcgi.conf in /usr/local/etc/hiawatha:

Server = /usr/local/bin/php-cgi ; 127.0.0.1:9000 ; www ; /usr/local/etc/php.ini

Hope this helps...

Why install spawn-fcgi? Hiawatha has its own PHP FastCGI daemon manager. If you edited php-fcgi.conf, just run php-fcgi to start PHP as a FastCGI daemon. I think you are mixing up php-fcgi and spawn-fcgi...

OK thanks, it works

OP was following the wrong howto to ask for a bad example... to get it right!

His best bet was (is) to read between the lines and come up with an example that suits his needs.

hiawatha.conf:

FastCGIserver {
      FastCGIid = PHP5
      ConnectTo = 127.0.0.1:2005
      Extension = php
}

php-fcgi.conf:

Server = /usr/local/bin/php-cgi ; 127.0.0.1:2005 ; www ; /usr/local/etc/php.ini

Run 'php-fcgi' from the command line to whip the daemons.

or am I wrong?

Assuming that you have PHP installed in /usr/local, yes, that should work.

Yep. It is a default location for libraries, executables, etc... in FreeBSD.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/dirstructure.html