Installing apache mod_fcgid(fastcgi module) on CentOS 5

For apache to support FastCGI, you have to install either mod_fastcgi or mod_fcgid. In this example, I will show how to install mod_fcgid on existing apache webserver on centos 5.

First of all, the rpm is available at kbsingh's centos testing repository.To install kbsingh's centos repository:

1. Download kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo to /etc/yum.repos.d/

# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# wget http://centos.karan.org/kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo

2. Enable karansingh's testing repo by setting gpgcheck to 0 and enabled to 1 in the [kbs-CentOS-Testing]

# sed -i "s/enabled=0/enabled=1/g" /etc/yum.repos.d/kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo

3. Install mod_fcgid

# yum install mod_fcgid

4. Restart apache, and verify whether fcgid_module is available by using the second command below

# /etc/init.d/httpd restart
# httpd -t -D DUMP_MODULES

5. If the module is still not loaded, add "LoadModule fcgid_module modules/mod_fcgid.so" to your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, and restart apache.


That's all :)