How to Install MOD_FASTCGI on cPanel server

Installation requirements for compilation

# yum install httpd-devel apr apr-devel libtool

Download latest mod_fastcgi source code

# cd /opt
# wget http://www.fastcgi.com/dist/mod_fastcgi-current.tar.gz

Untar the package.

# tar -xvzf mod_fastcgi-current.tar.gz

Install the module. You can find the installation guide on the INSTALL.AP2 file. We have to specify top_dir in the make and make install commands because we install apache2/httpd using yum

# cd mod_fastcgi-2.4.6
# cp Makefile.AP2 Makefile
# make top_dir=/usr/lib/httpd
# make install top_dir=/usr/lib/httpd

(IF there is error you can use the command
apxs -n mod_fastcgi -i -a -c mod_fastcgi.c fcgi_buf.c fcgi_config.c fcgi_pm.c fcgi_protocol.c fcgi_util.c)

Add “LoadModule fastcgi_module modules/mod_fastcgi.so” to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to tell apache to load the new module

Restart apache

# /etc/init.d/httpd restart