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ID: 51983 Comment by: slim at inbox dot lv Reported by: konstantin at symbi dot org Summary: [fpm sapi] pm.status_path not working when cgi.fix_pathinfo=1 Status: Assigned Type: Bug Package: FPM related Operating System: Any PHP Version: 5.3SVN-2010-06-03 (snap) Assigned To: fat Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: probably it is worth to have additional setting to set webserver in use and select appropriate handling method. Something like "web_server = compliant | apache | iis | anything" this will simplify appending of hacks for custom implementations of fastcgi protocol Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-07-17 15:35:58] konstantin at symbi dot org I remember I've seen a configuration which passed SCIPT_FILENAME but no DOCUMENT_ROOT. (In nginx, you can define any fastcgi variables in the configuraton file, there's nothing hardcoded). I have no idea how many such configurations exist, may be that one was the single of its kind in the world. But it would be definitely wrong to break anything in the 5.3.x branch. Well, that extra ini setting is probably really unneeded. May be just leave support for SCRIPT_FILENAME (handle it always it if is not empty) in 5.3.x, and drop it in 5.4? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-07-17 15:29:46] f...@php.net hi, thx for the feedback. For SCRIPT_FILENAME, I know it became a pseudo standard. But as the concatenation of DOCUMENT_ROOT and SCRIPT_NAME results in SCRIPT_FILENAME, I don't really see why you want to keep it with yet another fpm configuration line ? Maybe I missed something :) ++ Jerome ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-07-17 14:19:13] konstantin at symbi dot org Hello, Here are a few quick thoughts. 1) The fix_pathinfo stuff has been implemented a long ago, and it's main purpose was to workaround the bugs of web servers used 10 years ago. It was developed with the CGI exec()s in mind so the performance impact caused by multiple stat()s was not so important. I see no reason to keep it nowadays. 2) The patch I have proposed hase a bug mentioned in a comment above, that must be fixed. I personally just use fix_patninfo=0 now ;) 3) The CGI protocol itself has been developed (as far as I understand) with a thought that there's some monolithic application which takes PATH_INFO, parses it, does something and prints the results. With PHP applications, there's usually another case - we need to map the request variables to a physical path to the php script, the same way as web server SAPIs do. It does not conform to any RFCs but that's how people DO use PHP, and that's a behavior everyone expects in 99.9999% cases. 4) The non-standard SCRIPT_FILENAME fastcgi variable is widely used in many configurations, and there are standard config samples for nginx etc which rely on the fact that it has been working for years. 5) Your proposal seems mostly OK but I'd prefer if the SCRIPT_FILENAME remains supported. My proposal would be close to yours: I. Add the 'fcgi.accept_script_filename' per-pool ini setting, default true; II. Add the document_root.override per-pool ini setting, default empty. III. Remove all the fix_pathinfo stuff, and change the corresponding parts of the init_request_info function according to the pseudocode: function get_script_filename(ini, Env) { var script_filename; if (ini["fcgi.accept_script_filename"] == true && Env["SCRIPT_FILENAME"] is not empty) { script_filename = Env["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]; } else { doc_root = undefined; assert(Env["SCRIPT_NAME"] is not empty); // * if (ini["document_root.override"] is not empty) { doc_root = ini["document_root.override"]; } else { assert(Env["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] is not empty); doc_root = Env["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]; } script_filename = concat(doc_root, Env["SCRIPT_NAME"]); } return script_filename; } *) assert() means 'respond with status 500 if assertion fails'. The RFC3875 compliance can be achieved by defining document_root.override and setting fcgi.accept_script_filename = false. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-07-16 19:37:25] f...@php.net If FPM would be RFC 3875 compliant, it should: - set document_root in its own configuration - execute the script set by concatening its own document_root and SCRIPT_NAME As all web servers are sending DOCUMENT_ROOT correctely, FPM should: - execute the script set by concatening DOCUMENT_ROOT and SCRIPT_NAME In this two cases, nginx and lighttpd would still work, mod_fastcgi should work depending on how it's being used and proxy_mod_fcgi whould just not work. as apache 2.3 is still beta, I hope we could have them change mod_proxy_fcgi behaviour in order to be RFC 3875 compliant... (I've opened a bug report: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51517) but for mod_fastcgi this is more complicated. We can't forget it because it's used with FPM (just google apache fpm) How should we addresse that ? That is the question I don't have the answer to :( But I have a proposal: 1- add a configuration directive on each pool named "document_root.override" which is optional and default set to "true" 2- add a configuration directive on each pool named "document_root" which is optional and default set to (null). But it's mandatory if document_root.override is set. This set the document_root for the current pool. In fact, as the web server and FPM can be on a different server with a different filesystem organisation, I really think that it's not the job of the webserver to set the document_root, but it's up to nginx. Does the webserver defines where a tomcat application servers find the files / class it has to execute ? --> NO. This configuration is made on the tomcat side. FPM should not be exclusive, but this should be definitely possible (which is not the case right now) 3- add a configuration directive on each pool named "not_compliant_fcgi_web_server" which is optional and default set to "false" So, when a request arrives if (not_compliant_fcgi_web_server is set to "true") { just act as now and nothing changes and all servers works. } else { // new behaviour, RFC compliant // determine the doc_root. doc_root = (empty) if (document_root.override is set to "false") { doc_root = document_root } else { if (DOCUMENT_ROOT has been sent by the webserver) { doc_root = DOCUMENT_ROOT } else { doc_root = document_root } } if (doc_root is not empty and SCRIPT_NAME is not empty) { execute script set by concatenation of doc_root and SCRIPT_NAME } else { returns a 500 and log the error to warn the web server administrator } } Notes: the configuration directive names have been choosen as a first thought. There is maybe changes to make. what guys do you think ? ++ Jerome ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-07-16 19:37:12] f...@php.net but let's analyse all this: FastCGI defines a communication protocol above CGI 1.1 (which is defined in RFC 3875). So fastcgi client/servers should be RFC 3875 compliant >From RFC 3875: Usefull required request variables are: - PATH_INFO - PATH_TRANSLATED - QUERY_STRING - SCRIPT_NAME And the variable which are NOT defined in the RFC: - DOCUMENT_ROOT - SCRIPT_FILENAME - REQUEST_URI Here is a comparison of common web server behaviour to see what values they send to FPM. See http://pastebin.com/tqFjUaiB Conlusion: Nginx and Lighttpd are fully RFC 3875 compliant and they add the following variables: - SCRIPT_FILENAME - DOCUMENT_ROOT - REQUEST_URI Note: nginx should set PATH_INFO event if it's null as describe in the RFC. But this breaks nothing. So we can forgive him. mod_fastcgi is acting as nginx and lighttpd only with the following configuration: <VirtualHost *:82> DocumentRoot /home/fat/web/docs/php FastCgiExternalServer /home/fat/web/docs/php -host 127.0.0.1:9000 </VirtualHost> but in this case, all request are sent to FPM and this is NOT what common users want to do. In order to send only php request, users can use the following configuration: <VirtualHost *:82> DocumentRoot /home/fat/web/docs/php <Location "/php-fpm"> Options +ExecCGI Order Deny,Allow Deny from All Allow from ENV=REDIRECT_STATUS </Location> FastCgiExternalServer /php-fpm-handler -host 127.0.0.1:9000 AddType application/x-httpd-php .php Action application/x-httpd-php /php-fpm ScriptAlias /php-fpm /php-fpm-handler </VirtualHost> In this case, mod_fastcgi is not RFC 3875 compliant: - DOCUMENT_ROOT, REQUEST_URI and QUERY_STRING are set correctely - SCRIPT_FILENAME, SCRIPT_NAME, PATH_INFO, PATH_TRANSLATED have just wrong values mod_proxy_fcgi is also not RFC 3875 compliant: - DOCUMENT_ROOT, REQUEST_URI and QUERY_STRING are set correctely - SCRIPT_FILENAME, SCRIPT_NAME, PATH_INFO, PATH_TRANSLATED have just wrong values SCRIPT_NAME is even empty when apache env var proxy-fcgi-pathinfo is set ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. 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