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description of FastCGI patch, mostly stolen shamlessly from the email posting

This page documents the 1.4 (latest stable) release. Documentation for other releases can be found here.

Trac and FastCGI

There is a patch to Trac 0.8.1 available adding support for the ​FastCGI interface. Like TracModPython, this allows trac to remain resident, and is faster than external CGI interfaces which must start a new process for each page view. However, unlike mod_python, it is able to support ​SuEXEC. Additionaly, it is supported by much wider variety of webservers.

The patch

Simple configuration

# Enable fastcgi for .fcgi files
# if using a distro package for mod_fcgi, something like this is probably already done
<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
     AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
     FastCgiIpcDir /var/lib/apache2/fastcgi 
</IfModule>
LoadModule fastcgi_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_fastcgi.so

You can either setup the TRAC_ENV as an overall default: 

FastCgiConfig -initial-env TRAC_ENV=/path/to/env/trac

Or NOT VERIFIED you should be able to do it per-directory as described in TracInstall for normal CGIs.

Configure ScriptAlias or similr options as described in TracInstall, but calling cgi-bin/trac.fcgi instead of cgi-bin/trac.cgi

See also TracGuide, TracInstall, TracMultipleProjects

Note: See TracWiki for help on using the wiki.