Centos5 安装nginx perl-fastcgi

The nginx web server is a fast, lightweight server designed to efficiently handle the needs of both low and high traffic websites. Although commonly used to serve static content, it’s quite capable of handling dynamic pages as well. This guide will help you get nginx up and running with Perl and FastCGI on your CentOS 5 Linux VPS.

It is assumed that you’ve already followed the steps outlined in our getting started guide. These steps should be performed via a root login to your Linode VPS over SSH.

Set the Hostname

Before you begin installing and configuring the components described in this guide, please make sure you’ve followed our instructions for setting your hostname. Issue the following commands to make sure it is set properly:

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hostname

hostname -f

The first command should show your short hostname, and the second should show your fully qualified domain name (FQDN).

Install Required Packages

CentOS doesn’t include nginx in their repositories, so you’ll need to add support for EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) from the Fedora project. Issue the following command:

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rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

Issue the following commands to update your system and install the nginx web server and compiler tools (Perl should already be installed):

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yum update

yum install nginx make automake gcc gcc-c++ fcgi-perl wget

yum install nginx fcg-perl wget

chkconfig –add nginx

chkconfig nginx on

/etc/init.d/nginx start

You’ll be asked to accept the key for EPEL, as it gets imported the first time you install an EPEL package.

Configure Virtual Hosting

In this guide, the domain “example.com” is used as an example site. You should substitute your own domain name in the configuration steps that follow. First, create directories to hold content and log files:

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mkdir -p /srv/www/www.example.com/public_html

mkdir /srv/www/www.example.com/logs

chown -R nginx:nginx /srv/www/www.example.com

Issue the following commands to create virtual hosting directories:

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mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-available

mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

Add the following lines to your /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file, immediately after the line for include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf:

/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

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# Load virtual host configuration files.

include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

Next, you’ll need to define the site’s virtual host file:

/etc/nginx/sites-available/www.example.com

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server {

listen 80;

server_name www.example.com example.com;

access_log /srv/www/www.example.com/logs/access.log;

error_log /srv/www/www.example.com/logs/error.log;

 

location / {

root /srv/www/www.example.com/public_html;

index index.html index.htm;

}

 

location ~ \.pl$ {

gzip off;

include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;

fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8999;

fastcgi_index index.pl;

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /srv/www/www.example.com/public_html$fastcgi_script_name;

}

}

Issue the following commands to enable the site:

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cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/www.example.com

/etc/init.d/nginx restart

You may wish to create a test HTML page under /srv/www/www.example.com/public_html/ and view it in your browser to verify that nginx is properly serving your site (Perl will not work yet). Please note that this will require an entry in DNS pointing your domain name to your Linode’s IP address (found on the “Remote Access” tab in the Linode Manager).

Configure FastCGI Wrapper

First create the FastCGI wrapper script (credit: Denis S. Filimonov) at /usr/bin/fastcgi-wrapper.pl with the following contents:

/usr/bin/fastcgi-wrapper.pl

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#!/usr/bin/perl

 

use FCGI;

use Socket;

use POSIX qw(setsid);

 

require ‘syscall.ph’;

 

&daemonize;

 

#this keeps the program alive or something after exec’ing perl scripts

END() { } BEGIN() { }

*CORE::GLOBAL::exit = sub { die “fakeexit\nrc=”.shift().”\n”; };

eval q{exit};

if ($@) {

exit unless $@ =~ /^fakeexit/;

};

 

&main;

 

sub daemonize() {

chdir ‘/’ or die “Can’t chdir to /: $!”;

defined(my $pid = fork) or die “Can’t fork: $!”;

exit if $pid;

setsid or die “Can’t start a new session: $!”;

umask 0;

}

 

sub main {

$socket = FCGI::OpenSocket( “127.0.0.1:8999”, 10 ); #use IP sockets

$request = FCGI::Request( \*STDIN, \*STDOUT, \*STDERR, \%req_params, $socket );

if ($request) { request_loop()};

FCGI::CloseSocket( $socket );

}

 

sub request_loop {

while( $request->Accept() >= 0 ) {

 

#processing any STDIN input from WebServer (for CGI-POST actions)

$stdin_passthrough =”;

$req_len = 0 + $req_params{‘CONTENT_LENGTH’};

if (($req_params{‘REQUEST_METHOD’} eq ‘POST’) && ($req_len != 0) ){

my $bytes_read = 0;

while ($bytes_read < $req_len) {

my $data = ”;

my $bytes = read(STDIN, $data, ($req_len – $bytes_read));

last if ($bytes == 0 || !defined($bytes));

$stdin_passthrough .= $data;

$bytes_read += $bytes;

}

}

 

#running the cgi app

if ( (-x $req_params{SCRIPT_FILENAME}) && #can I execute this?

(-s $req_params{SCRIPT_FILENAME}) && #Is this file empty?

(-r $req_params{SCRIPT_FILENAME}) #can I read this file?

){

pipe(CHILD_RD, PARENT_WR);

my $pid = open(KID_TO_READ, “-|”);

unless(defined($pid)) {

print(“Content-type: text/plain\r\n\r\n”);

print “Error: CGI app returned no output – “;

print “Executing $req_params{SCRIPT_FILENAME} failed !\n”;

next;

}

if ($pid > 0) {

close(CHILD_RD);

print PARENT_WR $stdin_passthrough;

close(PARENT_WR);

 

while(my $s = <KID_TO_READ>) { print $s; }

close KID_TO_READ;

waitpid($pid, 0);

} else {

foreach $key ( keys %req_params){

$ENV{$key} = $req_params{$key};

}

# cd to the script’s local directory

if ($req_params{SCRIPT_FILENAME} =~ /^(.*)\/[^\/]+$/) {

chdir $1;

}

 

close(PARENT_WR);

close(STDIN);

#fcntl(CHILD_RD, F_DUPFD, 0);

syscall(&SYS_dup2, fileno(CHILD_RD), 0);

#open(STDIN, “<&CHILD_RD”);

exec($req_params{SCRIPT_FILENAME});

die(“exec failed”);

}

}

else {

print(“Content-type: text/plain\r\n\r\n”);

print “Error: No such CGI app – $req_params{SCRIPT_FILENAME} may not “;

print “exist or is not executable by this process.\n”;

}

 

}

}

Then create an init script to control the FastCGI process that matches the one shown below:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/perl-fastcgi

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#!/bin/sh

#

# nginx – this script starts and stops the nginx daemon

#

# chkconfig: – 85 15

# description: Nginx is an HTTP(S) server, HTTP(S) reverse \

# proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server

# processname: nginx

# config: /opt/nginx/conf/nginx.conf

# pidfile: /opt/nginx/logs/nginx.pid

 

# Source function library.

. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

 

# Source networking configuration.

. /etc/sysconfig/network

 

# Check that networking is up.

[ “$NETWORKING” = “no” ] && exit 0

 

perlfastcgi=”/usr/bin/fastcgi-wrapper.pl”

prog=$(basename perl)

 

lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/perl-fastcgi

 

start() {

[ -x $perlfastcgi ] || exit 5

echo -n $”Starting $prog: “

daemon $perlfastcgi

retval=$?

echo

[ $retval -eq 0 ] && touch $lockfile

return $retval

}

 

stop() {

echo -n $”Stopping $prog: “

killproc $prog -QUIT

retval=$?

echo

[ $retval -eq 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile

return $retval

}

 

restart() {

stop

start

}

 

reload() {

echo -n $”Reloading $prog: “

killproc $nginx -HUP

RETVAL=$?

echo

}

 

force_reload() {

restart

}

rh_status() {

status $prog

}

 

rh_status_q() {

rh_status >/dev/null 2>&1

}

 

case “$1” in

start)

rh_status_q && exit 0

$1

;;

stop)

rh_status_q || exit 0

$1

;;

restart)

$1

;;

reload)

rh_status_q || exit 7

$1

;;

force-reload)

force_reload

;;

status)

rh_status

;;

condrestart|try-restart)

rh_status_q || exit 0

;;

*)

echo $”Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|try-restart|reload|force-reload}”

exit 2

esac

Next issue the following commands to make the scripts executable and set the perl-fastcgi process to start on boot:

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chmod +x /usr/bin/fastcgi-wrapper.pl

chmod +x /etc/rc.d/init.d/perl-fastcgi

/etc/rc.d/init.d/perl-fastcgi start

chkconfig –add perl-fastcgi

chkconfig perl-fastcgi on

Test Perl with FastCGI

Create a file called “test.pl” in your site’s “public_html” directory with the following contents:

/srv/www/www.example.com/public_html/test.pl

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#!/usr/bin/perl

 

print “Content-type:text/html\n\n”;

print <<EndOfHTML;

<html><head><title>Perl Environment Variables</title></head>

<body>

<h1>Perl Environment Variables</h1>

EndOfHTML

 

foreach $key (sort(keys %ENV)) {

print “$key = $ENV{$key}<br>\n”;

}

 

print “</body></html>”;

Make the script executable by issuing the following command:

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chmod a+x /srv/www/www.example.com/public_html/test.pl

When you visit http://www.example.com/test.pl in your browser, your Perl environment variables should be shown. Congratulations, you’ve configured the nginx web server to use Perl with FastCGI for dynamic content!

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