[MS4W-Users] mod_fcgid.so on Win 2008

[Jeff McKenna]

For custom x64 Windows builds of MS4W, I build the entire stack of
libraries in x64 release mode, including mod_fcgid.  I do not recommend
using these x32 libraries in x64 mode, please proceed at your own risk.

-jeff


-- 
Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/

On 2013-10-22 4:38 PM, Smith, Michael wrote:
> I have a new 64-bit Win 2008 server, migrating from Win 2003 32-bit.
> 
>  
> 
> I copied everything over to the new server.  Everything works fine
> except FastCGI.
> 
>  
> 
> If I include mod_fcgid.so as a loaded module in httpd.conf, I get this
> error when starting Apache: 
> 
>  
> 
> /httpd: Syntax error on line 129 of C:/ms4w_306/Apache/conf/httpd.conf:
> Cannot load C:/ms4w_306/Apache/modules/mod_fcgid.so into server: The
> specified module could not be found./
> 
> / /
> 
> And yet it is right there in C:/ms4w_306/Apache/modules:
> 
>  
> 
> /C:\ms4w_306\Apache\modules>dir *fcgid.*/
> 
> /Volume in drive C has no label./
> 
> /Volume Serial Number is 3495-008C/
> 
> / /
> 
> /Directory of C:\ms4w_306\Apache\modules/
> 
> / /
> 
> /04/19/2012  09:33 AM            57,856 mod_fcgid.so/
> 
> /               1 File(s)         57,856 bytes/
> 
> /               0 Dir(s)  78,668,070,912 bytes free/
> 
>  
> 
> Is this some 64-bit thing I somehow need to take care of?  My WMS will
> all work fine if I run them through ‘regular’ CGI, but when I switch on
> FCGI they break and of course I get this error message.
> 
>  
> 
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