spawn-fcgi ☆

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Description:
Spawn FastCGI processes

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: fastcgi web-server lighttpd cgi process-manager

Install: brew install spawn-fcgi

About:
Spawn-fcgi is a lightweight utility designed to launch and manage FastCGI processes, often used with web servers like lighttpd or nginx. It provides a simple and efficient way to spawn external CGI-like applications, handling process management and socket communication. This tool is essential for deploying web applications that require persistent application servers behind a web front-end.

Key Features:

Lightweight and standalone process manager
Supports spawning processes via sockets or file descriptors
Provides options for user/group privilege dropping
Integrates seamlessly with lighttpd and other FastCGI-enabled servers

Use Cases:

Deploying PHP or Python web applications via FastCGI
Managing persistent backend processes for high-performance web servers
Running legacy CGI scripts as persistent FastCGI daemons

Alternatives:

PHP-FPM – PHP-FPM is a more feature-rich process manager specifically for PHP, whereas spawn-fcgi is a generic tool for any FastCGI application.
systemd – Systemd can manage process lifecycles but lacks the specific FastCGI protocol awareness and socket management that spawn-fcgi provides.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 15, 2025 9:28am		0	VERSION_BUMP	aa2c17c9
Sep 13, 2024 9:59pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	08b3f39d