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
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Sep 15, 2025 9:28am 0 VERSION_BUMP aa2c17c9
Sep 13, 2024 9:59pm 0 VERSION_BUMP 08b3f39d
Sep 24, 2023 11:39pm 0 VERSION_BUMP 30a91f5f
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