#4496 Virtualmin - IPCCommTimeout mod_fcgid directive is deprecated

[Bojan Vitnik]

Hi.

When using FCGId, Virtualmin puts "IPCCommTimeout" directive in Apache config. According to this page:

http://httpd.apache.org/mod_fcgid/mod/mod_fcgid.html

"IPCCommTimeout" is deprecated in favor of "FcgidIOTimeout".

Also "IPCCommTimeout" is put into the Apache config only if "php_admin_value engine Off" is also put. If "mod_php" is disabled, "php_admin_value engine Off" is not put into the Apache config and that causes "IPCCommTimeout" to not be put also. But "IPCCommTimeout" and "FcgidIOTimeout" don't have any connection to "mod_php" so they should not be dependent of it.

Thanks in advance!

[Bojan Vitnik]

Upon further inspection, "FCGIWrapper" is also deprecated in favor of "FcgidWrapper".

[Jamie Cameron]

Are they seriously renaming old directives and breaking existing config files? That's pretty bad form..

[Bojan Vitnik]

Well, old directives still work I guess, because Apache doesn't complain and works correctly. And this renaming is not of recent date. It dates as far as mod_fcgid version 2.3.2 which was released in 2010 or so.

[Jamie Cameron]

I'm inclined to not change Virtualmin to use the new directives then, as it would break compatibility with older mod_fcgid versions.

[Bojan Vitnik]

OK. Would you then consider supporting new directives when reading Apache config? As things are now, if I manually change Apache config to use only new directives, Virtualmin will not read Apache config correctly. For example if I change "IPCCommTimeout" to "FcgidIOTimeout", leave the default value of 31 (max_execution_time + 1, at least on my system) and then go to Server Configuration->Website Options, Virtualmin will show a value of 40 seconds??? for "Maximum PHP script run time".

[Jamie Cameron]

Sure, I'll do that.

[Bojan Vitnik]

Of course, from the user's point of view, the most elegant solution would be to detect the mod_fcgid version and then use proper directives... but it's nightmare for someone doing the code :). On the other hand, you are already testing for mod_fcgid version when using "FcgidMaxRequestLen" directive.