pashky/connect-fastcgi

Connect middleware to communicate with FastCGI servers

What

connect middleware to pass requests to FastCGI server process.

Why

Because PHP-FPM. Yes, that's right, it's insanity, but I need it, mainly for development and automated testing tasks I do with grunt and simple node.js scripts.

This module is a stripped down version of this https://github.com/davidcoallier/node-php server converted to connect middleware. It was then modified to support POST and PUT, pass required headers etc.

How

var connect = require('connect'), 
    php = require('../connect-fastcgi');

var app = connect()
        .use('/php', php({ fastcgiPort: 8002, fastcgiHost: 'localhost', root: "./php" }))
        .use(connect.logger())
        .use(connect.static('./assets'))
        .listen(3000);

Available options:

• root: root directory for scripts
• fastcgiHost: host or socket path to FastCGI process
• fastcgiPort: port

Thanks

David Coallier for original node-php module

connect-fastcgi's Issues

File upload

Hello,

I also needed the same insanity as you did ;)

Anyhow, uploading a binary file is broken (line an image). To fix it you need to insert

            writer.encoding = 'binary';

after this line https://github.com/pashky/connect-fastcgi/blob/master/index.js#L165

Thanks again
Cheers.

Specify RegExp for parsing the URL into script_filename and path_info

I am working with a Yii app, and I just realized that this module bluntly assumes that request.url will be the script filename. Current and modern apps tend to use something like mysite.com/articles/this-one-thing. Internally, it resolves into /index.php/article/.... To parse it, one can use this simple regexp pattern:

var matches = "/index.php/app/site".match(/(.+\.php)(.+)/),
      script_filename = matches[1],
      path_info = matches[2];

I'd suggest enabling the ability to pass and enable a matching pattern.