On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Michael Shadle <mike503@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Igor Sysoev <igor@sysoev.ru> wrote:
>
>>    *) Feature: the conf/fastcgi.conf for simple FastCGI configurations.
>
> What's the reasoning for this? Right now it's identical to
> fastcgi_params besides for no
>
> fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
>
> Which I think should be kept as default, as it's probably the most
> standard way people use it, and they can overrfastide it manually in the
> server config if they choose to host PHP in some wacky place...
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Because it's not just for PHP. Most other people don't NEED
SCRIPT_FILENAME (or at least in my experience) and I think it's a good
thing to not needlessly pass along a value made of variables that must
be resolved.

That said I'll be including fastcgi.conf instead of fastcgi_params on
my PHP boxes now :).

-- Merlin

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