How to pass full path to fast-cgi app

It’s necessary to configure which parameters are passed to fast-cgi application from nginx server. For this purposes serves fastcgi_param keyword. It’s a good practice to keeps all fastcgi params together. For this purposes nginx has fastcgi.conf file. This file already contains most of useful fastcgi_param bindings.

fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
...

To include this file use include statement:

location / {
   include fastcgi_params;
   fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9345;
 }

How to pass custom headers to fast-cgi app

Default configuration pass only default headers to fast-cgi. It’s necessary to add few more configurations statements:

fastcgi_pass_request_headers on;

After that headers are passed as HTTP_* parameters:

HTTP_HEADER1=2222

External links

• http://wiki.nginx.org/FcgiExample
• http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#underscores_in_headers
• http://chriswu.me/blog/writing-hello-world-in-fcgi-with-c-plus-plus/
• http://nginx.org/en/docs/windows.html