FreeBSD Spawn FCGI Init Script¶

What is this¶

A “one size fits all” script to interface with spawn-fcgi in a friendly way. It is provided with an example of how to launch PHP, but only needs quick modifying to work with anything that can run as a FastCGI process. Feel free to experiment - this also has been successfully tested with Python WSGI, CGILua, and the like for example.

Note to PHP users on FreeBSD: PHP-FPM support is available from the configure screen - this will allow you to do fine tuning over the FastCGI processes. In my own opinion, you should be using PHP-FPM over this.

Note to everyone else: I have recently switched this over to use UNIX sockets instead of TCP ports; if you want to use a TCP port instead, just type the port into SERVER_SOCKET, and then switch the -s switch to a -p switch in the fcgi_start function :)

File¶

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/spawn-fcgi

Usage¶

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/spawn-fcgi [(re)start|status|stop]

Run this script on boot (add to /etc/rc.local):

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/spawn-fcgi start

Script¶

#!/bin/sh
# Modified spawn-fcgi for rc.d (original: vivek@nixcraft.com)
NAME=php-cgi
SPAWNFCGI=/usr/local/bin/spawn-fcgi
FCGI_CHILDREN=3
PROCESS_NAME=lua
SERVER_SOCKET=/tmp/fcgi.socket
SERVER_PID=/tmp/fcgi.pid
SERVER_USER=www
SERVER_GROUP=www
FCGI_PROCESS=/usr/local/bin/php-cgi
SOCKSTAT=/usr/bin/sockstat
GREP=/usr/bin/grep
KILLALL=/usr/bin/killall
cmd=$1
fcgi_restart()
{
        fcgi_stop
        fcgi_start
}
fcgi_start()
{
        $SPAWNFCGI -s $SERVER_SOCKET -P $SERVER_PID -u $SERVER_USER -g $SERVER_GROUP -F $FCGI_CHILDREN -f $FCGI_PROCESS
}
fcgi_stop()
{
        $KILLALL $PROCESS_NAME
}
fcgi_status()
{
        $SOCKSTAT -u | $GREP -i $SERVER_SOCKET > /dev/null
        [ $? -eq 0  ] && echo "$PROCESS_NAME is running" || echo "$PROCESS_NAME is not running!"
}
fcgi_help()
{
        echo "Usage: $0 {(re)start|status|stop}"
}
case ${cmd} in
[Rr][Ee][Ss][Tt][Aa][Rr][Tt]) fcgi_restart;;
[Ss][Tt][Aa][Rr][Tt]) fcgi_start;;
[Ss][Tt][Oo][Pp]) fcgi_stop;;
[Ss][Tt][Aa][Tt][Uu][Ss]) fcgi_status;;
*) fcgi_help;;
esac