fcgi-cgi is a FastCGI application to run normal cgi applications. It doesn't make CGI applications faster, but it allows you to run them on a different host and with different user permissions (without the need for suexec).

lighttpd2 won't have a mod_cgi, so you need this FastCGI wrapper to be able to execute standard cgi applications like mailman and cgit.

fcgi-cgi is released under the MIT license.

Usage

Examples for spawning a fcgi-cgi instance with daemontools or runit::

#!/bin/sh
# run script

exec spawn-fcgi -n -s /var/run/fastcgi-cgi.sock -u www-default -U www-data -- /usr/bin/fcgi-cgi

Build dependencies

glib >= 2.16.0 (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/)
libev (https://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html)
meson (https://mesonbuild.com/)

Build

Clone from git: git clone https://git.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/fcgi-cgi.git

Setup a build directory build:

meson setup build --prefix /usr/local

Compile it:

meson compile -C build

Install:

meson install -C build