= Trac and FastCGI =

There is a patch to Trac 0.8.1 available adding support for the [http://www.fastcgi.com/ 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 [http://httpd.apache.org/docs/suexec.html SuEXEC]. Additionaly, it is supported by much wider variety of webservers.

== The patch ==

 * http://bdash.net.nz/files/trac-fcgi-0.patch
 * [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.trac.general/2294 Mailing List thread]

== 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

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See also TracGuide, TracInstall, TracMultipleProjects