# FastCGI isn't beeing nice to me :(

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fastcgi-isnt-beeing-nice-to-me/87733>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 5, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fastcgi-isnt-beeing-nice-to-me/87733 "2007-03-05T17:24:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fastcgi-isnt-beeing-nice-to-me/87733/1 "2007-03-05T17:24:37Z")

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I followed the following guide:

[http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Fast+CGI+and+Apache2+for+Windows+XP](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Fast+CGI+and+Apache2+for+Windows+XP)

Now my apache and everything is working, how ever the moment i turn on  
fastcgi (by changing RewriteRule ^(._)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L] to  
RewriteRule ^(._)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L])

I get nothing out of my lovely system but a huge list of the same error:

[Mon Mar 05 17:21:59 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] , referer:  
[http://localhost/login/signup/](http://localhost/login/signup/)  
[Mon Mar 05 17:22:15 2007] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server  
“C:/rails/bpure/public/dispatch.fcgi” started (pid 3608)  
[Mon Mar 05 17:22:16 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 109)The pipe  
has been ended. : FastCGI: comm with server  
“C:/rails/bpure/public/dispatch.fcgi” aborted: GetOverlappedResult()  
failed  
[Mon Mar 05 17:22:16 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] FastCGI:  
incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server  
“C:/rails/bpure/public/dispatch.fcgi”  
[Mon Mar 05 17:22:16 2007] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server  
“C:/rails/bpure/public/dispatch.fcgi” (pid 3608) terminated with exit  
with status ‘1’  
[Mon Mar 05 17:22:20 2007] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server  
“C:/rails/bpure/public/dispatch.fcgi” restarted (pid 7908)  
[Mon Mar 05 17:22:20 2007] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server  
“C:/rails/bpure/public/dispatch.fcgi” (pid 7908) terminated with exit  
with status ‘1’  
[Mon Mar 05 17:22:25 2007] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server  
“C:/rails/bpure/public/dispatch.fcgi” restarted (pid 5332)  
[Mon Mar 05 17:22:25 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 109)The pipe  
has been ended. : FastCGI: comm with server  
“C:/rails/bpure/public/dispatch.fcgi” aborted: GetOverlappedResult()  
failed  
[Mon Mar 05 17:22:25 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] FastCGI:  
incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server  
“C:/rails/bpure/public/dispatch.fcgi”  
[Mon Mar 05 17:22:25 2007] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server  
“C:/rails/bpure/public/dispatch.fcgi” (pid 5332) terminated with exit  
with status ‘1’  
[Mon Mar 05 17:22:30 2007] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server  
“C:/rails/bpure/public/dispatch.fcgi” restarted (pid 716)  
[Mon Mar 05 17:22:30 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 109)The pipe  
has been ended. : FastCGI: comm with server  
“C:/rails/bpure/public/dispatch.fcgi” aborted: GetOverlappedResult()  
failed  
[Mon Mar 05 17:22:30 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] FastCGI:  
incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server  
“C:/rails/bpure/public/dispatch.fcgi”  
[Mon Mar 05 17:22:30 2007] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server  
“C:/rails/bpure/public/dispatch.fcgi” (pid 716) terminated with exit  
with status ‘1’  
[Mon Mar 05 17:22:30 2007] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server  
“C:/rails/bpure/public/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain running for  
30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to  
600 seconds  
[Mon Mar 05 17:22:31 2007] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server  
“C:/rails/bpure/public/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain running for  
30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to  
600 seconds

I tried changing the premissions on the files basically any solution i  
managed to find (which weren’t that many) i tried them all in different  
variations.

Ive been bashing my head against this problem for pretty much 3 hours  
now and my brain is starting to hurt. Is there any one out there that  
could help me in the right direction?
