fastcgi is an extremely simple web server that serves a FastCGI application.
Install it (globally) with npm:
$ npm install -g fastcgi
Suppose you have a FastCGI application (e.g. Django) listening on Unix socket /opt/myapp/socket, you don't want to set up Apache httpd, nginx, or anything else:
$ fastcgi --port=8888 --socket=/opt/myapp/socket
Voila! Instant web application. Basically, fastcgi exports a FastCGI/unix service to be an HTTP/inet service.
fastcgi is an npm package and command-line tool
$ ./cli.js --help
Usage: node ./cli.js [options] <FastCGI program> [program arg1] [arg2] [...]
Options:
--die Exit after serving one request [boolean]
--log Path to log file
--port Listening port number [required]
--max Maximum allowed subprocesses [default: 25]
--daemon Daemonize (run in the background); requires --log [boolean]
--lock Lockfile to use when daemonizing
--socket Unix socket FastCGI program will use [required]
The --daemon flag is helpful. It will make fastcgi run in the background.
Apache 2.0