Topic: mod_fastcgi, apache 2.4, and windows.

[covener]

For legacy reasons, I'm still using mod_fastcgi. mod_fastcgi and Apache are built side by side with the same compiler. Only under 2.4, and only on Windows, my extremely basic test handler never sees the Query string set.

I've tried both getenv() and GetEnviromnmentVariableA() in the fastcgi Program. mod_fastcgi fakes out the global environment so the normal getenv() like calls work as if you were in a CGI.

Has anyone pursued any problems in this neighborhood?

[James Blond]

Which scripting language do you use or do you try to use an internal function from mod_fastcgi ?

[covener]

[James Blond]

The documentation for FCGX_Accept_r() in fcgiapp.h says`:

[admin]

We had to restore a backup, following post from Covener:

Unfortunately already using FCGI_Accept() which assigns the per-request environment to "environ" which allows the standard getenv/GetEnvironmentVariableA to work.

This is also broken only on Windows -- I build the same fcgi binary for multiple platforms. I do notice that mod_fastcgi does use APR to fork the children, which would maybe explain the one moving part in the upgraded 2.4 stac.

[covener]

mod_fastcgi after http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=568818

needs:

Index: fcgi_pm.c

@@ -513,6 +514,12 @@
if (apr_os_file_put(&file, &listen_handle, 0, tp))
goto CLEANUP;

+ /* Make sure stdout and stderr are INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, even
+ * if under a level of APR with http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=568818
+ */
+ if (apr_procattr_io_set(procattr, APR_NO_FILE, APR_NO_FILE, APR_NO_FILE))
+ goto CLEANUP;
+

But I expect very little interest in making mod_fastcgi on 2.4

[covener]

to completely close the loop, query_string was not set because mod_fastcgi thought we were running as a CGI due to those handles being set, so it short circuited a lot of processing.