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my system is:

wx3# uname -a
FreeBSD wx3 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan  3 07:46:30 UTC 2012     [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
wx3#

packages installed:

wx3# pkg_info | grep -Ei '^apache|^ap22-mod_fastcgi|^php5-5.3|^spawn-fcgi'
ap22-mod_fastcgi-2.4.6_2 A fast-cgi module for Apache
apache-2.2.21       Version 2.2.x of Apache web server with prefork MPM.
php5-5.3.8          PHP Scripting Language
spawn-fcgi-1.6.3    spawn-fcgi is used to spawn fastcgi applications
wx3#

apache's configuration files:

wx3# cat mod_fastcgi.conf
LoadModule fastcgi_module     libexec/apache22/mod_fastcgi.so

<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
    AddHandler php5-fastcgi .php
    FastCgiExternalServer /usr/local/www/apache22/data/php -socket /var/run/spawn_fcgi.sock
</IfModule>
wx3#

this is me trying to hit phpinfo.php file from a remote

mbp:~ alexus$ curl -I X.X.X.X/php/phpinfo.php
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:28:14 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.21 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/0.9.8q DAV/2 mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.7.2 mod_fastcgi/2.4.6
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.8
Content-Type: text/html

mbp:~ alexus$

now, I'm trying to create a virtualhost, so I copying already working fastcgi to get php to work:

wx3# cat X.conf 
<VirtualHost *:*>
    ServerName X.X.X
    DocumentRoot /home/X/X/htdocs/
    <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
        AddHandler php5-fastcgi .php
        FastCgiExternalServer /home/X/X/htdocs/php -socket /var/run/spawn_fcgi.sock
    </IfModule>
    LogLevel debug
    CustomLog /home/X/X/logs/access_log combined
    ErrorLog /home/X/X/logs/error_log
</VirtualHost>
wx3#

hitting same phpscript

mbp:~ alexus$ curl -I X.X.X/php/phpinfo.php
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:31:33 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.21 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/0.9.8q DAV/2 mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.7.2 mod_fastcgi/2.4.6
Last-Modified: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:08:11 GMT
ETag: "97c8ef-14-4bb1223c8a4c0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 20
Content-Type: application/x-httpd-php

mbp:~ alexus$

What am I missing? Why would it work for default host and won't work it for virtualhost even though I pretty much copy and paste a working configuration from default host and just change a directory?

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It seems you have bad definition of <VirtualHost *:*>, because your server have loaded mod_fastcgi (as you can see in the Server: header in answer), but it don't know, that .php have to be done via php5-fastcgi handler.

Have you defined directive NameVirtualHost? Does your computer know, that it's IP have name X.X.X (use /etc/hosts file, if there is not a DNS record)?

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  • "VirtualHost" defined just fine, they're both works as expected, the only thing that isn't working is a PHP scripts
    – alexus
    Mar 13, 2012 at 14:36
  • @alexus And what if you change config to remove IfModule directive and only remain AddHandler and FastCgiExternalServer?
    – Jan Marek
    Mar 13, 2012 at 15:13
  • if I remove "IfModule" directive it will perform exactly the same, this directive there just in case if mod_fastcgi isn't present yet apache will start anyway (website will work just in degraded state) and other websites will work fine as well.
    – alexus
    Mar 13, 2012 at 20:33
  • actually the problem is in FastCgiExternalServer (fastcgi.com/mod_fastcgi/docs/…) and not in apache's configuration, basically that directive works across ALL hosts, how would use share that across multiple virtualhosts (especially knowing that it requires path to files w/ php script)?
    – alexus
    Mar 13, 2012 at 20:36
  • @alexus I'm sorry, but is /home/X/X/htdocs/php executable and has apache rights to exec it?
    – Jan Marek
    Mar 14, 2012 at 5:34

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