How To Install fcgiwrap on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcgiwrap on CentOS 8.
What is fcgiwrap
This package provides a simple FastCGI wrapper for CGI scripts with/ following features - very lightweight (84KB of private memory per instance) - fixes broken CR/LF in headers - handles environment in a sane way (CGI scripts get HTTP-related environment vars from FastCGI parameters and inherit all the others from environment of fcgiwrap ) - no configuration, so you can run several sites off the same fcgiwrap pool - passes CGI std error output to std error stream of cgiwrap or FastCGI - support systemd socket activation, launcher program like spawn-fcgi is no longer required on systemd-enabled distributions
We can use yum or dnf to install fcgiwrap on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fcgiwrap.
Install fcgiwrap on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fcgiwrap using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fcgiwrap
Install fcgiwrap on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fcgiwrap using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fcgiwrap
How To Uninstall fcgiwrap on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fcgiwrap package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fcgiwrap
fcgiwrap Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/sysconfig/fcgiwrap
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/19
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/3659fdbdf8de77ac2484f53c35f734cdb9aabd
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/sbin/fcgiwrap
/usr/share/doc/fcgiwrap
/usr/share/doc/fcgiwrap/README.SELinux
/usr/share/doc/fcgiwrap/README.rst
/usr/share/doc/fcgiwrap/SETUP
/usr/share/licenses/fcgiwrap
/usr/share/licenses/fcgiwrap/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/fcgiwrap.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fcgiwrap on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.