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Apache mod_fcgid

My HostingUK hosting service runs this module and I have seen notices and warnings in my server logs

The mod_fcgid is the means by which CGI scripts are run on an Apache web server.

CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface.

What Apache say:

mod_fcgid is a high performance alternative to mod_cgi or mod_cgid, which starts a sufficient number instances of the CGI program to handle concurrent requests, and these programs remain running to handle further incoming requests. It is favored by the PHP developers, for example, as a preferred alternative to running mod_php in-process, delivering very similar performance.

The reason for this page as the reference to mod_fcgid was in the message seen in my server logs when the Timezone was not set correctly in a PHP script.

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What Dave at Cardif University says:

CGI defines a standard way in which information may be passed to and from the browser and server.

Any program or script that can process information according to the CGI specification can, in theory, be used to code a CGI script.

In other words the script could be written in Perl, Python, PHP or another scripting language.

You can also use a SSI (Server Side Include) to run the same actions as a CGI script.

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