Lamp with mod_fastcgi

Question

Hi!

I am building a cgi application, and now I would like it to be like an application that stands and parses each connection, with this, I can have all session variables saved in memory instead of saving them to file(or anyother place) and loading them again on a new connection

I am using lamp within a linux vmware but I can't seem to find how to install the module for it to work and what to change in the httpd.conf. I tried to compile the module, but I couldn't because my apache isn't a regular instalation, its a lamp already built one, and it seems that the mod needs the apache directory to be compiled. I saw some coding examples out there, so I guess is not that hard once its runing ok with Apache

Can you help me with this please?

Thanks,
Joe

Answer 1

Using FastCGI just means that you spawn a number of processes which will handle requests they get from the actual webserver instead of the webserver spawning a new process whenever a request arrives.

Use something like memcached if you want to keep stuff like sessions in memory.