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| --><title>mod_cgid - Apache HTTP Server</title><link href="../style/css/manual.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="Main stylesheet" /><link href="../style/css/manual-loose-100pc.css" rel="alternate stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="No Sidebar - Default font size" /><link href="../style/css/manual-print.css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" /><link href="../images/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" /></head><body><div id="page-header"><p class="menu"><a href="../mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="../mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="../faq/">FAQ</a> | <a href="../glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="../sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p><p class="apache">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.0</p><img alt="" src="../images/feather.gif" /></div><div class="up"><a href="./"><img title="<-" alt="<-" src="../images/left.gif" /></a></div><div id="path"><a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-project/">Documentation</a> > <a href="../">Version 2.0</a> > <a href="./">Modules</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>Apache Module mod_cgid</h1><table class="module"><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Description">Description: |
| </a></th><td>Execution of CGI scripts using an |
| external CGI daemon</td></tr><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Status">Status: |
| </a></th><td>Base</td></tr><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#ModuleIdentifier">Module Identifier: |
| </a></th><td>cgid_module</td></tr><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#SourceFile">Source File: |
| </a></th><td>mod_cgid.c</td></tr><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility: |
| </a></th><td>Unix threaded MPMs only</td></tr></table><h3>Summary</h3> |
| <p>Except for the optimizations and the additional <code class="directive"><a href="#scriptsock">ScriptSock</a></code> directive noted below, |
| <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_cgid.html">mod_cgid</a></code> behaves similarly to <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_cgi.html">mod_cgi</a></code>. |
| <strong>See the <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_cgi.html">mod_cgi</a></code> summary for additional details |
| about Apache and CGI.</strong></p> |
| |
| <p>On certain unix operating systems, forking a process from a |
| multi-threaded server is a very expensive operation because the |
| new process will replicate all the threads of the parent |
| process. In order to avoid incurring this expense on each CGI |
| invocation, <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_cgid.html">mod_cgid</a></code> creates an external daemon that is |
| responsible for forking child processes to run CGI scripts. The |
| main server communicates with this daemon using a unix domain |
| socket.</p> |
| |
| <p>This module is used by default instead of |
| <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_cgi.html">mod_cgi</a></code> whenever a multi-threaded MPM |
| is selected during the compilation process. At the user level, |
| this module is identical in configuration and operation to |
| <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_cgi.html">mod_cgi</a></code>. The only exception is the |
| additional directive <code>ScriptSock</code> which gives the |
| name of the socket to use for communication with the cgi |
| daemon.</p> |
| </div><div id="quickview"><h3 class="directives">Directives</h3><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="../images/right.gif" /> <a href="mod_cgi.html#scriptlog">ScriptLog</a></li> |
| <li><img alt="" src="../images/right.gif" /> <a href="mod_cgi.html#scriptlogbuffer">ScriptLogBuffer</a></li> |
| <li><img alt="" src="../images/right.gif" /> <a href="mod_cgi.html#scriptloglength">ScriptLogLength</a></li> |
| <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#scriptsock">ScriptSock</a></li> |
| </ul><h3>See also</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_cgi.html">mod_cgi</a></code></li><li><a href="../suexec.html">Running CGI programs under different user IDs</a></li></ul></div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div><div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="ScriptSock" id="ScriptSock">ScriptSock</a> <a name="scriptsock" id="scriptsock">Directive</a></h2><table class="directive"><tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description: |
| </a></th><td>The name of the socket to use for communication with |
| the cgi daemon</td></tr><tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax: |
| </a></th><td><code>ScriptSock <var>file-path</var></code></td></tr><tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default: |
| </a></th><td><code>ScriptSock logs/cgisock</code></td></tr><tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context: |
| </a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr><tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status: |
| </a></th><td>Base</td></tr><tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module: |
| </a></th><td>mod_cgid</td></tr></table> |
| <p>This directive sets the name of the socket to use for |
| communication with the CGI daemon. The socket will be opened |
| using the permissions of the user who starts Apache (usually |
| root). To maintain the security of communications with CGI |
| scripts, it is important that no other user has permission to |
| write in the directory where the socket is located.</p> |
| |
| <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><p><code> |
| ScriptSock /var/run/cgid.sock |
| </code></p></div> |
| |
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