+1 from me too. It would be really helpful to get an updated mod_fcgid consolidated into the httpd trunk, and backport to 2.4.x.
On 2026-10-28 19:04 UTC Jamal TANTAOUI wrote: > Hi all, > > mod_fcgid has had no release since 2.3.9 (October 2013). Trunk has > fixes that never shipped, Windows users run trunk builds from Apache > Lounge, and Linux distributions carry their own patches. Mario Brandt > suggested moving it into httpd, next to the other modules, so it gets > built, released and fixed with httpd. I agree, and I'm offering to do > the work: > > 1. Copy mod_fcgid trunk into httpd trunk as modules/fcgid, with its > history. It already supports an in-tree build. > 2. Wire the build (configure and CMake), move the docs into the > manual, add tests to httpd-tests. > 3. Bring in reviewed fixes: downstream patches and a few from > Bugzilla, starting with FcgidWrapper paths containing spaces on > Windows (PR 51194). > 4. Propose the backport to 2.4.x once it is stable in trunk. > > After that, I'll keep looking after it, since I run mod_fcgid on > Windows in production. There is no PHP-FPM on Windows, and mod_fcgid > remains the way to run PHP over FastCGI there. > > Is there any objection to the move? If not, how would you like the > import done: a committer doing the svn copy, then pull requests on > apache/httpd for the rest? > > Best regards, > Jamal Tantaoui >
