fcgi-cgi(1)

NAME
fcgi-cgi - a FastCGI application to run cgi applications

OPTIONS

-c <number>
    Maximum number of connections (default 16)

-v  Shows version information and exits

DESCRIPTION
fcgi-cgi is a FastCGI application to run normal cgi applications. It doesn't make CGI applications faster, but it allows you to run them on a different host and with different user permissions (without the need for suexec).

lighttpd2 won't have a mod_cgi, so you need this FastCGI wrapper to be able to execute standard cgi applications like mailman and cgit.

nginx recommends something similar, they implemented the wrapper in Perl: http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxSimpleCGI

For running you probably want spawn-fcgi (http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/spawn-fcgi)

EXAMPLE
Example usage: spawn-fcgi -n -s /tmp/fastcgi-cgi.sock -u www-default -U www-data -- /usr/bin/fcgi-cgi

AUTHOR
fcgi-cgi was written by Stefan Bühler.