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Temporary Url not working with FastCGI

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Scenario:

Sometimes you may come across the issue that the temporary URL not working for the PHP file. On servers running  FastCGI as PHP handler, it is not possible to run PHP files via temporary url such as http://SERVER_IP/~username/index.php . But you will be able to view HTML files. 

Before you proceed make sure the web hosting company allows the use of temporary url.

You can follow the below steps for working this around:

1.   In the user’s public_html/cgi-bin directory, create a file called php5.fcgi and give it permissions 755, and add the following content :

#!/bin/sh

 export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=1

export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=10

exec /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5

2. Then add the following lines to the .htaccess file in user’s public_html/ directory :

AddHandler php5-fastcgi .php
Action php5-fastcgi /cgi-bin/php5.fcg

Category : Apache, Linux, Troubleshooting