gateway

Node.js middleware to execute CGI scripts

Purpose of this module is to allow development tools like Yeoman or Livestyle to serve PHP files (and possibly other scripting languages) directly.

To make this work you need the php-cgi binaray in your PATH.

Usage

var http = require('http');
var gateway = require('gateway');

var app = http.createServer(gateway(__dirname, {
  '.php': 'php-cgi'
}))

Usage with command line arguments

var http = require('http');
var gateway = require('gateway');

var app = http.createServer(gateway(__dirname, {
  '.php': ['php-cgi', '-d', 'auto_prepend_file=/path/to/auto_prepended.php']
  }
}))

Installing php-cgi

The php-cgi binary can be installed via Homebrew by tapping the homebrew-php repository:

brew tap homebrew/dupes
brew tap josegonzalez/homebrew-php
brew install php54

Directories

If the middleware encounters a URL that points to a directory, it will look for an index file matching any of the registered extensions. If the URL points to a valid directory but the path does not end with a slash, a permanent redirect is sent.

The gateway middleware doesn't support cgi-bin directories. If you want to serve CGI scripts with a shebang please use node-cgi instead.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Felix Gnass

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.