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Install fcgi with Homebrew, apk, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman

Protocol for interfacing interactive programs with a web server. Version 2.4.7 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install fcgi

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install fcgi

MacPorts ports tree · www/fcgi/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add fcgi

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · fcgi · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install fcgi

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · fcgi · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#fcgi

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/fc/fcgi/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S fcgi

Arch Linux sync databases · fcgi · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

overview

Package summary

Protocol for interfacing interactive programs with a web server

Commands and aliases

  • cgi-fcgi

history

Project history and usage

FastCGI is an open extension to CGI that keeps application processes alive and communicates with them over a simple protocol, avoiding the one-process-per-request model of traditional CGI.

The `fcgi` package is the FastCGI Developer's Kit: headers, libraries, examples, language integration material, and the `cgi-fcgi` tool used to develop and test FastCGI applications.

Project history

Open Market published the FastCGI 1.0 specification on April 29, 1996. The spec defines the interface between FastCGI applications and supporting web servers from the application's perspective.

The Developer's Kit dates to the same 1996 Open Market codebase. The current FastCGI-Archives repository preserves a fork of the original FastCGI SDK after the historical FastCGI.com site disappeared.

Adoption history

FastCGI was adopted because it offered CGI's language-agnostic deployment model without forcing every request to spawn a new process. The official docs include integration material for Perl, Tcl, and Java as well as C library documentation.

Its long-term package-manager role is legacy infrastructure: modern web stacks often hide FastCGI behind application servers or language-specific process managers, but `fcgi` remains the small C SDK and bridge tool that many systems keep available for compatibility.

How it is used

Developers use the library to write FastCGI applications that accept requests over a listening socket and exchange FastCGI records with a web server. The SDK includes examples, headers, `libfcgi`, and language-specific documentation.

The `cgi-fcgi` command is useful for development and testing because it can bridge CGI-style invocation and FastCGI applications, including when a web server lacks direct FastCGI support.

Why package nerds care

FastCGI is package-nerd archaeology that still matters: a 1990s web protocol whose ABI, headers, and helper binary continue to be packaged because web servers, wrappers, and legacy applications still know how to speak it.

The package is also the dependency behind tools like fcgiwrap, making it part of the compatibility layer that lets old CGI programs survive behind newer web-server configurations.

Timeline

  • 1996: Open Market published FastCGI specification 1.0.
  • 1996: The FastCGI Developer's Kit documented libraries, examples, language integrations, and `cgi-fcgi`.
  • 2016: The FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2 GitHub repository was created to preserve the SDK after the original FastCGI.com material moved offline.

Related projects

  • CGI is the predecessor interface that FastCGI extends.
  • fcgiwrap, spawn-fcgi, web-server FastCGI modules, and language runtimes such as PHP-FPM are part of the surrounding FastCGI ecosystem.

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

  • text:server

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 3 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
cgi-fcgicliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version2.4.7
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detected2.4.7

https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:fcgi
Version2.4.7
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/fcgi
Homepagehttps://fastcgi-archives.github.io/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2
Upstream docshttps://fastcgi-archives.github.io/FastCGI_Specification.html
LicenseOML
Source archivehttps://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2/archive/refs/tags/2.4.7.tar.gz
Build dependenciesautoconf, automake, libtool
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namefcgi
Aliases
  • fastcgi
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

fcgi

nix profile install nixpkgs#fcgi
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fcgi
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fc/fcgi/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
apk95%

fcgi 2.4.6-r0

FAST CGI(fcgi) is a language independent, high performant extension to CGI

https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2

sudo apk add fcgi
  • License: OML
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: fcgi
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fcgi
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fcgi from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

fcgi++ 2.4.6-r0

FCGI c++ library

https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2

sudo apk add fcgi++
  • License: OML
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: fcgi
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fcgi
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fcgi++ from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

fcgi-dev 2.4.6-r0

FAST CGI(fcgi) is a language independent, high performant extension to CGI (development files)

https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2

sudo apk add fcgi-dev
  • License: OML
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: fcgi
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fcgi
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fcgi-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

fcgi-doc 2.4.6-r0

FAST CGI(fcgi) is a language independent, high performant extension to CGI (documentation)

https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2

sudo apk add fcgi-doc
  • License: OML
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: fcgi
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fcgi
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fcgi-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
dnf95%

fcgi 2.4.7-2.fc44

FastCGI development kit

https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2

sudo dnf install fcgi
  • License: OML
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: fcgi
  • 5 dependencies
  • 4 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fcgi
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: fcgi from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

fcgi-devel 2.4.7-2.fc44

Development files for fcgi

https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2

sudo dnf install fcgi-devel
  • License: OML
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: fcgi
  • 4 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fcgi
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: fcgi-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
pacman95%

fcgi 2.4.7-1

FASTCgi (fcgi) is a language independent, high performant extension to CGI

https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2

sudo pacman -S fcgi
  • License: custom
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fcgi
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: fcgi from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
MacPorts95%

fcgi

sudo port install fcgi
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Fcgi
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: www/fcgi/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • autoconfBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • automakeBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • libtoolBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • fcgiwrapPopular package that depends on this formula.
  • mapserverPopular package that depends on this formula.

Same workflow

  • mighttpd2Shares av.db curated category or tags: cgi, cli, networking, web-server.
  • spawn-fcgiShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, fastcgi, networking, web-server.
  • webfsShares av.db curated category or tags: cgi, cli, networking, web-server.
  • algernonShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, web-server.
  • caddyShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, web-server.
  • ferronShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, web-server.

source trail

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  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
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  • package version freshness
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