Nginx and cgit - upstream prematurely closed FastCGI stdout

Server NGINX
1

I’m trying to setup cgit 0.10 with nginx 1.2.1-2.2 and fastcgi 1.0.3-3.
Unfortunately the reponse is a 502. The following message is written in
the error.log:

[error] 30956#0: *1 upstream prematurely closed FastCGI stdout while
reading response header from upstream, client: **, server: , request:
“GET / HTTP/1.1”, upstream: “fastcgi://unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket:”,
host: ""

My nginx site is configured as follows:

server {
   ...
   root /var/www/cgit/;
   proxy_redirect off;

   location ~* ^.+\.(css|png|ico)$ {
       expires 30d;
   }

   location / {
         include fastcgi_params;
         fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /var/www/cgit;
         fastcgi_pass   unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
         fastcgi_param    PATH_INFO $uri;
         fastcgi_param    QUERY_STRING  $args;
   }

}

Does anybody have an idea, what is going wrong? I also tried to raise
the timeout limit, but I have no success.

Thanks!
snafu

2

Hello,
I recently had a lot of trouble similar to this, and discovered that
the fastcgi_param directive is additive - eg a later declaration of
SCRIPT_FILENAME simply adds a second SCRIPT_FILENAME to the fastcgi
parameters. You most likely have SCRIPT_FILENAME set in your “include
fastcgi_params” which means the second one later on is being ignored.

3

Hello Richard,

thanks for your help. I tried it and a lot of other things without any
success.

But now it works. I just have install the latest fastcgi version from
sources with the same setup as mentioned.

Unfortunately without the advantages of the package management.

Best regards,
Lars