nginx serving R scripts via CGI/FastRWeb

Wed Feb 20 20:28:27 UTC 2013

>> "~" means "regex".
> "^" means "start of string".
> "$" means "end of string".
> This location will only match requests that are
> /cgi-bin/R
> or
>> /cgi-bin/R?something
> and not
>> /cgi-bin/R/something
>
yep. silly me, I do have a location for all /cgi-bin/R/ calls, like:
 location ~ ^/cgi-bin/R/ {
 gzip off;
 fastcgi_pass unix:/opt/sdr/report/ws/fastcgi_temp/nginx-fcgi.sock;
 fastcgi_index index.cgi;
 fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /opt/sdr/report/docroot/$fastcgi_script_name;
 fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
 fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
 fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
 fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
 fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
 fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri;
 fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri;
 fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT /opt/sdr/report/docroot;
 }
and another one for anything *.cgi:
 location ~ ^/cgi-bin/.*\.cgi$ {
 gzip off;
 fastcgi_pass unix:/opt/sdr/report/ws/fastcgi_temp/nginx-fcgi.sock;
 fastcgi_read_timeout 5m;
 fastcgi_index index.cgi;
 #fastcgi_buffers 8 4k;
 #
 # You may copy and paste the lines under or use include directive
 # include /etc/nginx/nginx-fcgi.conf;
 # In this example all is in one file
 ...
 }
since under my /cgi-bin/ I can have lots of cgi scripts and the executable R cgi script.
Testing any calls for /cgi-bin/R/foo returns:
Cannot get script name, are DOCUMENT_ROOT and SCRIPT_NAME (or SCRIPT_FILENAME) set and is the script executable?
Cannot get script name, are DOCUMENT_ROOT and SCRIPT_NAME (or SCRIPT_FILENAME) set and is the script executable?
Im trying to see if fastcgi_split_path_info might help anything.
stefan