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FreeBarbarian2016-04-17 16:31:40
Apache HTTP Server
FreeBarbarian, 2016-04-17 16:31:40

What is the CGI mechanism?

Please explain in detail to the noob what are the differences between the CGI mechanism and FastCGI and why Apache needs them at all, I did not fully understand on the wiki.

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Dmitry Tallmange, 2016-04-17
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In VERY short terms: CGI starts a new process every time it needs to execute code. FastCGI forks several processes at startup, which always hang in memory and receive code to execute.

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