MapGuide RFC 99 - Support FastCGI

This page contains a change request (RFC) for the MapGuide Open Source project. More MapGuide RFCs can be found on the RFCs page.

Status

RFC Template Version	(1.0)
Submission Date	June 22, 2010
Last Modified	Bruce Dechant June 22, 2010
Author	Bruce Dechant
RFC Status	proposed
Implementation Status	incomplete
Proposed Milestone	2.3
Assigned PSC guide(s)	Bruce Dechant
Voting History
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Overview

This RFC updates MapGuide to use FastCGI now that it is offically supported by Microsoft for IIS.

Link to Microsoft's site on FastCGI for IIS: ​http://www.iis.net/download/fastcgi

Motivation

Offical support for the PHP ISAPI module has been dropped from PHP 5.3. We are planning to move to PHP 5.3 and so we need to stop using the unsupported PHP ISAPI module. This comes at a good time because Microsoft is now offically supporting FastCGI.

Proposed Solution

Upgrade existing mapagent to support FastCGI for both IIS and Apache.

Implications

The unsupported PHP ISAPI module for IIS will be dropped. The Apache module will also be dropped with the move to FastCGI.

Test Plan

Build/Run on Windows/Linux.

Funding/Resources

Supplied by Autodesk.