From: Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@...>
Date: 2004-12-15T05:57:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Apache2, FastCGI and Rails on Windows

Williams, Chris wrote:
> I've been running around in circles trying to enable FastCGI on my rails
> install.
> 
> I've modified my http.conf to load the fastcgi module and add it as the
> handler for .fcgi
> I've modified my .htaccess to redirect to dispatch.fcgi, and that is
> working. 
> 
> What happens is that Rails throws back the 500 page with an error, and
> Apache's error log show's the following:
> 
>  [Tue Dec 14 12:56:09 2004] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" started (pid 1636)
> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:11 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 109)The pipe
> has been ended.  : FastCGI: comm with server
> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted: GetOverlappedResult() failed
> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:11 2004] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" (pid 1636) terminated with exit with
> status '1'
> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:11 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] FastCGI:
> incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi"
> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:11 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not
> exist: C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/favicon.ico
> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:14 2004] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" restarted (pid 2472)
> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:16 2004] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" (pid 2472) terminated with exit with
> status '1'
> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:19 2004] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" restarted (pid 3652)
> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:20 2004] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" (pid 3652) terminated with exit with
> status '1'
> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:24 2004] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" restarted (pid 2120)
> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:26 2004] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" (pid 2120) terminated with exit with
> status '1'
> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:26 2004] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" has failed to remain running for 30
> seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to
> 600 seconds
> 
> It seems to be unable to communicate over the default pipe. Has anyone
> managed to get this working? What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
I went thru all with no luck. I don't think Windows implementation other 
than the Ruby core(thanks Matz) is any good, at best it will get you 
frustrated. Prior to that I've tried to get Apache2, mod_ruby/eruby to 
work, but no luck.

I don't think that they care so much for Windows users. Perhaps anyone 
can prove me wrong.