For those people who, for various reasons, can't or don't want to compile PHP with php-fpm (or for anyone who needs to spawn FCGI processes in general), spawn-fcgi has been split out of Lighttpd into its own project (message below).

Regards, Cliff

-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Stefan Bühler <ligh...@stbuehler.de> To: ligh...@lists.lighttpd.net Subject: [lighttpd-announce] spawn-fcgi-1.6.0rc1-r16 prerelease Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:42:13 +0100

Prerelease of spawn-fcgi 1.6.0 (rc1-r16)

*spawn-fcgi extracted into own project*

There are several versions of spawn-fcgi (one in lighttpd 1.4.x, one in 1.5.x and one in cherokee), which makes packaging very hard (e.g.: debian packages spawn-fcgi from lighty as "spawn-fcgi.lighttpd" - which makes using it more complicated as your scripts are probably using "spawn-fcgi"...). Additionally, keeping the sources and bug fixes synchronized is just too much work (ok, the one in cherokee isn't our problem :) ). Therefore we decided to split spawn-fcgi into a new project which will start with version 1.6.0 (and will be independent of lighttpd releases).

We plan to remove spawn-fcgi from lighttpd-1.4.x after the release of lighttpd-1.4.22.

You can find the new project at http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/spawn-fcgi/wiki

In case you would like to test a spawn-fcgi version with more features (options for chown the socket), see here: http://cgit.stbuehler.de/gitosis/spawn-fcgi/about/ (needs glib)

*Important changes*

- Removed limits for @-C phpchildren@ option, which now justs sets @PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN@ if @phpchildren >= 0@ (default: ommited); php's default is @PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN = 0@, which means that the master process is the worker process. (not the same as @PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN = 1@, which results in one master watching its child). Instead of using the @-C@ option you can now just set the environment var before invoking spawn-fcgi. - Modified the log messages format

*Downloads*

- http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-fcgi-1.6.0rc1-r16.tar.gz MD5: ff19abc92b74fd8c7099291aff0caa95 SHA1: 883ccaeb9be21e0eda2f03b37e43795abf403845 - http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-fcgi-1.6.0rc1-r16.tar.bz2 MD5: 19099d04b133222329f1f6eed12b6398 SHA1: f6fb10a5c71a3d7b23889be614c5ecb232ce4563 - SHA1 checksums: http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-fcgi-1.6.0rc1-r16.sha1sum - MD5 checksums: http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-fcgi-1.6.0rc1-r16.md5sum

*Changes*

- Separated spawn-fcgi from lighttpd - Remove limits für php children; per default the PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN var is not changed (php defaults to no children, one worker) - Modified the log messages format (more details on errors, no source line) - Only try to connect to unix socket (not tcp) before spawning (fixes again #1575) - Only disconnect from terminal in fork mode (keep stderr/stdout open in nofork mode) - Allow numerical user and group ids for -u/-g (fixes #1141) - Ignore pid-file option in no-fork mode (instead of producing empty file) - Fix error handling for unix-socket-connect test