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.

fcgi-cgi is released under the MIT license

Examples for spawning a fcgi-cgi instance with daemontools or runit:

#!/bin/sh
# run script

exec spawn-fcgi -n -s /var/run/fastcgi-cgi.sock -u www-default -U www-data -- /usr/bin/fcgi-cgi

• glib >= 2.16.0 (http://www.gtk.org/)
• libev (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html)
• cmake or autotools (for snapshots/releases the autotool generated files are included)

• snapshot/release with autotools:

  ./configure
  make
  

• build from git: git clone git://git.lighttpd.net/fcgi-cgi.git

• with autotools:

  ./autogen.sh
  ./configure
  make
  

• with cmake (should work with snapshots/releases too):

  cmake .
  make