Perl fastcgi on nginx

|| how to setup perl fastcgi on nginx
| installing nginx and perl cgi on debian

# aptitude install nginx libfcgi-perl

| setup nginx for perl fast cgi

# vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

add perl fastcgi configure on server section

         # perl fascgi
        location ~ .pl$ {
                fastcgi_pass    127.0.0.1:8999;
                fastcgi_index   index.pl;
                fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www$fastcgi_script_name;
                include         fastcgi_params;
        }

| make fastcgi-wrapper.pl

# vi /usr/bin/fastcgi-wrapper.pl

add line like these:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use FCGI;
use Socket;
use POSIX qw(setsid);
require 'syscall.ph';
&daemonize;

#this keeps the program alive or something after exec'ing perl scripts
END() { } BEGIN() { }
*CORE::GLOBAL::exit = sub { die "fakeexitnrc=".shift()."n"; };
eval q{exit};
if ($@) {
	exit unless $@ =~ /^fakeexit/;
};

&main;

sub daemonize() {
    chdir '/'                 or die "Can't chdir to /: $!";
    defined(my $pid = fork)   or die "Can't fork: $!";
    exit if $pid;
    setsid                    or die "Can't start a new session: $!";
    umask 0;
}

sub main {
        $socket = FCGI::OpenSocket( "127.0.0.1:8999", 10 ); #use IP sockets
        $request = FCGI::Request( *STDIN, *STDOUT, *STDERR, %req_params, $socket );
        if ($request) { request_loop()};
            FCGI::CloseSocket( $socket );
}

sub request_loop {
        while( $request->Accept() >= 0 ) {

           #processing any STDIN input from WebServer (for CGI-POST actions)
           $stdin_passthrough ='';
           $req_len = 0 + $req_params{'CONTENT_LENGTH'};
           if (($req_params{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST') && ($req_len != 0) ){
                my $bytes_read = 0;
                while ($bytes_read < $req_len) {
                        my $data = '';
                        my $bytes = read(STDIN, $data, ($req_len - $bytes_read));
                        last if ($bytes == 0 || !defined($bytes));
                        $stdin_passthrough .= $data;
                        $bytes_read += $bytes;
                }
            }

            #running the cgi app
            if ( (-x $req_params{SCRIPT_FILENAME}) &&  #can I execute this?
                 (-s $req_params{SCRIPT_FILENAME}) &&  #Is this file empty?
                 (-r $req_params{SCRIPT_FILENAME})     #can I read this file?
            ){
		pipe(CHILD_RD, PARENT_WR);
		my $pid = open(KID_TO_READ, "-|");
		unless(defined($pid)) {
			print("Content-type: text/plainrnrn");
                        print "Error: CGI app returned no output - ";
                        print "Executing $req_params{SCRIPT_FILENAME} failed !n";
			next;
		}
		if ($pid > 0) {
			close(CHILD_RD);
			print PARENT_WR $stdin_passthrough;
			close(PARENT_WR);

			while(my $s = ) { print $s; }
			close KID_TO_READ;
			waitpid($pid, 0);
		} else {
	                foreach $key ( keys %req_params){
        	           $ENV{$key} = $req_params{$key};
                	}
        	        # cd to the script's local directory
	                if ($req_params{SCRIPT_FILENAME} =~ /^(.*)/[^/]+$/) {
                        	chdir $1;
                	}

			close(PARENT_WR);
			close(STDIN);
			#fcntl(CHILD_RD, F_DUPFD, 0);
			syscall(&SYS_dup2, fileno(CHILD_RD), 0);
			#open(STDIN, "<&CHILD_RD");
			exec($req_params{SCRIPT_FILENAME});
			die("exec failed");
		}
            }
            else {
                print("Content-type: text/plainrnrn");
                print "Error: No such CGI app - $req_params{SCRIPT_FILENAME} may not ";
                print "exist or is not executable by this process.n";
            }

        }
}

[ don't add this line.. ] 

| make init script (debian)

# vi /etc/init.d/perl-fastcgi

add line like these:

#!/bin/bash
PERL_SCRIPT=/usr/bin/fastcgi-wrapper.pl
FASTCGI_USER=www-data
RETVAL=0
case "$1" in
    start)
      su - $FASTCGI_USER -c $PERL_SCRIPT
      RETVAL=$?
  ;;
    stop)
      killall -9 fastcgi-wrapper.pl
      RETVAL=$?
  ;;
    restart)
      killall -9 fastcgi-wrapper.pl
      su - $FASTCGI_USER -c $PERL_SCRIPT
      RETVAL=$?
  ;;
    *)
      echo "Usage: perl-fastcgi {start|stop|restart}"
      exit 1
  ;;
esac
exit $RETVAL

| chmod that script

# chmod +x /usr/bin/fastcgi-wrapper.pl
# chmod +x /etc/init.d/perl-fastcgi

|| starting httpd and perl-fastcgi

# /etc/init.d/nginx restart
# /etc/init.d/perl-fastcgi start

|| testing fastcgi on nginx

# cd /var/www
# vi test.pl

add line like these:

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/htmlnn";
print "<html><body>Hi there..</body></html>";

browse your script on : //yourhostname/test.pl

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