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FastCGINotes
Brad's Notes
Neil's instructions can be simplified further by taking advantage of the latest version of the MT "Bootstrap" module which supports FastCGI natively. The latest version can be found in Movable Type 3.34.
If you are running MT Enterprise or MT 3.33, you can download Bootstrap.pm separately and install it to: MT_DIR/lib/MT/Bootstrap.pm.
This version of Bootstrap.pm eliminates the need to alter any of your .cgi files as described in many previous tutorials. All you need to do is rename them with a .fcgi extension (or .fpl, depending on your server environment) and configure the web server to handle scripts with that extension via FastCGI.
Finally, configure MT to use the appropriate script names for each of the following:
AdminScript mt.fcgi ActivityFeedScript mt-feed.fcgi CommentScript mt-comments.fcgi TrackbackScript mt-tb.fcgi SearchScript mt-search.fcgi XMLRPCScript mt-xmlrpc.fcgi AtomScript mt-atom.fcgi UpgradeScript mt-upgrade.fcgi
You are only required to specify the scripts above that you want to run as FastCGI scripts and do not need to specify those which you don't use. For example, if you don't use XML-RPC or Atom, you can omit XMLRPCScript and AtomScript. Specifying AdminScript, CommentScript, TrackbackScript and SearchScript are highly recommended if you use all of those features.
Ian's Notes
Just to add to Brad's notes - Make sure you've installed the CPAN module FCGI. Also, if you're running SuExec on Apache 2, include 'FastCgiWrapper on' ...within the 'IfModule fastcgi_module' addition to httpd.conf.
