How to configure and run a fastcgi application using Lighthttpd - c++

Question

i've installed Lighthttpd for windows and i'd created a simple program in c++ which uses fastcgi libraries. i'll post the code here...
#include "fcgi_stdio.h"
#include <stdlib.h>
int count;
void initialize(void)
{
count=0;
}
void main(void)
{
initialize();
while (FCGI_Accept() >= 0) {
printf("Content-type: text/html\r\n"
"\r\n"
"<title>FastCGI Hello! (C, fcgi_stdio library)</title>"
"<h1>FastCGI Hello! (C, fcgi_stdio library)</h1>"
"Request number %d running on host <i>%s</i>\n",
++count, getenv("SERVER_HOSTNAME"));
}
}
I've spawned the fastcgi application in lighthttpd using the below configuration in lightttpd-inc.conf
fastcgi.server = ( ".exe" =>
( "" =>
(
"bin-path" => "D:\tinycgi.exe",
"port" => 8080,
"min-procs" => 1,
"max-procs" => 1
)
)
)
while sending a request using the browser the server is responding with this message in the console
2009-02-18 16:08:34: (mod_fastcgi.c.2494) unexpected end-of-file (perhaps the fa
stcgi process died): pid: 0 socket: tcp:localhost:8080
2009-02-18 16:08:34: (mod_fastcgi.c.3325) response not received, request sent: 1
024 on socket: tcp:localhost:8080 for /new/tinycgi.exe , closing connection
I think the fastcgi application is not spawned correctly.
Thank you,
Varun

Answer 1

First of all, main should return an int (not void).
The problem is most likely that you didn't call FCGX_Init() and didn't initialize the request (with FCGX_InitRequest()) either.
If you want to check if the application is spawned correctly, you should write to a log file, if lighttpd doesn't start the application, the log file won't be created.