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<div id="preamble"><h1>Apache Module mod_cgid</h1>
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<table class="module"><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Execution of CGI scripts using an
    external CGI daemon</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#ModuleIdentifier">Module Identifier:</a></th><td>cgid_module</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#SourceFile">Source File:</a></th><td>mod_cgid.c</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Unix threaded MPMs only</td></tr></table>
<h3>Summary</h3>

    <p>Except for the optimizations and the additional <code class="directive"><a href="#scriptsock">ScriptSock</a></code> directive noted below,
    <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_cgid.html">mod_cgid</a></code> behaves similarly to <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_cgi.html">mod_cgi</a></code>.
    <strong>See the <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_cgi.html">mod_cgi</a></code> summary for additional details
    about Apache and CGI.</strong></p>

    <p>On certain unix operating systems, forking a process from a
    multi-threaded server is a very expensive operation because the
    new process will replicate all the threads of the parent
    process. In order to avoid incurring this expense on each CGI
    invocation, <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_cgid.html">mod_cgid</a></code> creates an external daemon that is
    responsible for forking child processes to run CGI scripts. The
    main server communicates with this daemon using a unix domain
    socket.</p>

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    is selected during the compilation process. At the user level,
    this module is identical in configuration and operation to
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    additional directive <code>ScriptSock</code> which gives the
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/right.gif" /> <a href="mod_cgi.html#scriptlog">ScriptLog</a></li>
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<h3>See also</h3>
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<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_cgi.html">mod_cgi</a></code></li>
<li><a href="../suexec.html">Running CGI programs under different
    user IDs</a></li>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="ScriptSock" id="ScriptSock">ScriptSock</a> <a name="scriptsock" id="scriptsock">Directive</a></h2>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>The filename prefix of the socket to use for communication with
the cgi daemon</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ScriptSock <var>file-path</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ScriptSock logs/cgisock</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_cgid</td></tr>
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    <p>This directive sets the filename prefix of the socket to use for
    communication with the CGI daemon, an extension corresponding to
    the process ID of the server will be appended. The socket will be opened
    using the permissions of the user who starts Apache (usually
    root). To maintain the security of communications with CGI
    scripts, it is important that no other user has permission to
    write in the directory where the socket is located.</p>

    <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
      ScriptSock /var/run/cgid.sock
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