Hi,

I had a change I made to twcgi ages ago which I've just recently revised:

Old Issue: http://www.twistedmatrix.com/users/roundup.twistd/twisted/issue516

New Patch: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- twisted/web/twcgi.py (revision 10536) +++ twisted/web/twcgi.py (working copy) @@ -154,11 +154,20 @@ class PHPScript(FilteredScript): """I am a FilteredScript that uses the PHP command on most systems. Sometimes, php wants the path to itself as argv[0]. This is that time. + + To run as cgi, I require the following configuration options in php.ini be set: + cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1 + cgi.force_redirect = 0 """

filter = '/usr/bin/php4'

+class DebianPHPScript(PHPScript): + """PHP binary is in a different place in Debian"""

+ filter = '/usr/lib/cgi-bin/php4' + + class CGIProcessProtocol(protocol.ProcessProtocol, pb.Viewable): handling_headers = 1 headers_written = 0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

The doc changes are required imho, but I don't really like the subclass for Debian. Frankly, I think it sucks, but can anyone see a cleaner way of doing this?

It almost feels like something that should be configured on runtime - there are too many places the php4 variable could be (and we can't exactly do a $PATH lookup, becuase php4-cli doesn't have all the cgi stuff in it, and is in /usr/bin/php4 under debian systems).

Regards, Stephen Thorne