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John Mitchell wrote:
Hi,I would like to use fastcgi for the MS4W environment, and I have explored the following link:http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/fastcgi which says the following: <http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/fastcgi/#table-of-contents> FastCGI on Win32 <http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/fastcgi/#table-of-contents> MS4W Users <http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/fastcgi/#table-of-contents>MS4W (MapServer for Windows) <http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/> >= version 2.2.2 contains MapServer compiled with FastCGI support. However MS4W does not contain the required Apache module mod_fastcgi, because the module must be compiled to work with the Apache 2.2.x series (MS4W contains Apache 2.2.4). If you compile this please contribute it back to the MS4W mailing list <http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/ms4w-users>.
That doc is uptodate and correct for this.
It appears from above that I need module mod_fastcgi compiled. Has anyone done this?
No one has contributed this yet.
Is fast-cgi running within mapserver when setup in the following way: MS4W setup with latest FWTools bin content copied into MS4W apache\cgi-bin. I run mapserv -v and it says fastcgi. Is their anything else that I have to do?
Using the latest MS4W out-of-the-box will also give you that mapserv -v fastcgi message.
Also, are you aware that MS4W has it's own mailing list? (you even included the link in your email)
jeff -- Jeff McKenna DM Solutions Group Inc. http://www.dmsolutions.ca
