Jun 20, 2017

Hosting a PHP page from a yaws server using FastCGI on WINDOWS

If you are looking for a way to host or run a PHP page on YAWS server using PHP FastCGI process, just follow the below steps.


  • Place the PHP file/s in doc root folder
  • Change the yaws.conf file to redirect PHP script to run on FastCGI service.
                <server localhost>
                        port = 9009 
                        listen = 0.0.0.0
                        docroot = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Yaws-2.0.2/test"
                        auth_log = true
                        appmods = <cgi-bin, yaws_appmod_cgi>
                        php_handler = <fcgi, 127.0.0.1:54321>
                </server>

  • Start the YAWS server and confirm the errors.
  • Start the php FastCGI service.
    • To start on Windows: 
      • Download the XAMPP application from the below link and install it.
      • https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html
      • c:\xampp\php>php-cgi.exe -b 127.0.0.1:54321



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