.TH fcgi-cgi 1 "May 7, 2010" . .SH NAME . fcgi-cgi \- a FastCGI application to run cgi applications . .SH OPTIONS . .TP 8 .B \-c Maximum number of connections (default 16) .TP 8 .B \-v Shows version information and exits . .SH DESCRIPTION fcgi-cgi is a FastCGI application to run normal cgi applications. It doesn't make CGI applications faster, but it allows you to run them on a different host and with different user permissions (without the need for suexec). .P lighttpd2 won't have a mod_cgi, so you need this FastCGI wrapper to be able to execute standard cgi applications like mailman and cgit. .P nginx recommends something similar, they implemented the wrapper in Perl: http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxSimpleCGI .P For running you probably want spawn-fcgi (http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/spawn-fcgi) .SH EXAMPLE Example usage: spawn-fcgi -n -s /tmp/fastcgi-cgi.sock -u www-default -U www-data -- /usr/bin/fcgi-cgi .SH AUTHOR fcgi-cgi was written by Stefan Bühler.