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With apache ,I just put my binary under cgi-bin,how about nginx?

Does it support cgi at all?

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Nginx does not support CGI, because it does not spawn external processes. This is a design decision: Nginx is a high-performance web server and spawning an external process is rather expensive operation.

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why support of cgi means spawn external processes? – kernel May 28 '11 at 8:41
@kernel because there's no way Nginx is going to embed a way to execute cgi. – Martin Fjordvald May 28 '11 at 9:43
why can't nginx use the same way as executing PHP to execute cgi? – kernel May 28 '11 at 9:45
@kernel CGI (Common Gateway Interface) implies a script is executed by an HTTP server (RFC 3875, section 3.4: ietf.org/rfc/rfc3875.txt). Apache may execute a PHP script as CGI or using "mod_php" module (which is not CGI obviously) – Alexander Azarov May 28 '11 at 10:35
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It does support FastCGI and UWSGI, though.

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