Comments on: Building mod_fastcgi For Apache 2

By: Richard Aspden

Richard Aspden — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:49:07 +0000

Re earlier comment – easier way of doing it.

apxs -n fastcgi -i -a -c mod_fastcgi.c fcgi_buf.c fcgi_config.c fcgi_pm.c fcgi_protocol.c fcgi_util.c

That will install it correctly. Then just restart Apache. Use apxs2 if it’s called that on your system.

I’ve made a permanant copy of this at http://rick.guysintheknow.com/wiki/Compiling_FastCGI_for_Apache2 – hopefully it’ll help people with this problem in the future.

By: Richard Aspden

Richard Aspden — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:03:57 +0000

Ted: I just had the exact same issue. Found that it was down the module being called “fastcgi_module”, not “mod_fastcgi_module”. Alter the line in your httpd.conf to say the following:

LoadModule fastcgi_module /usr/lib/apache/mod_fastcgi.so

instead of

LoadModule mod_fastcgi_module /usr/lib/apache/mod_fastcgi.so

You’ll find it then works.

Hope that helps!

Rick

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 22:26:16 +0000

Ryan – No, ‘locate special.mk’ doesn’t find the file because it isn’t there. After I installed httpd-devel, I looked for special.mk where it should been. When I couldn’t find it, I did run updatedb, then used locate to see if it was somewhere else. No dice. It still isn’t there. Just to be 100% sure I did this: ‘find / -name special.mk’. I just don’t have a special.mk. (Did I mention that this is a Redhat 9 system?)

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:54:32 +0000

Great writeup. I had the same problems and the same results, but unfortunately when I configtest apache I get the following error:

[root@pdf1 mod_fastcgi-2.4.2]# /etc/init.d/httpd configtest
Syntax error on line 219 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
Can’t locate API module structure `mod_fastcgi_module’ in file /usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_fastcgi.so: /usr/lib/libapr.so.0: undefined symbol: mod_fastcgi_module

Did anyone see this problem? Any suggestions?

Thx in advance, Ted

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:31:01 +0000

Possibly the reason why “locate special.mk” didn’t find the file is because you didn’t update the locate database after installing httpd-devel. To do that run “updatedb” as root. Cheers!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:18:20 +0000

I’m using Fedora Core 4. After I installed httpd-devel, I found special.mk in /usr/lib/httpd/build/

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 03:18:39 +0000

Thanks for the tip, Contagious, but I don’t have a special.mk anywhere on my system – ‘locate special.mk’ says so. I do have the apache devel package installed. Doesn’t matter, though, because I got the module built without it.

By: Contagious

Contagious — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 02:39:36 +0000

special.mk lives in where you install apache
if you install from rpm on redhat/fedora system, it should be in /usr/lib/httpd

By: LA

LA — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:38:31 +0000

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