How to process only first path element in the URL as the CGI executable

[António P. P. Almeida]

On 8 Out 2010 16h02 WEST, vfclists at gmail.com wrote:

> [1 <multipart/alternative (7bit)>] [1.1 <text/plain; ISO-8859-1
> (7bit)>] I am using a FreePascal web module designed for apache
> cgi-bin with nginx.
>
> The CGI itself is called spidersample.cgi and contains modules such
> as hello, bye etc.
>
> With Apache when spidersample.cgi/hello is called, spidersample.cgi
> gets executed, and passes control to the hello subroutine it
> contains.
>
> With nginx instead of executing spidersample.cgi it treats
> spidersample.cgi/hello as meaning a hello file in a spidersample.cgi
> directory, and returns with a 404 error as there is no such
> directory.
>
> I suspect it is an easily fixed problem with some rewrite rules in
> the configuration file and it is posted below.
>
> =============================================
>
> server {
> listen          8118;
> server_name     localhost;
> access_log      /var/log/nginx/sysman_access.log;
> index index.html;
> root  /home/rchurch/Data/Lazarus/CgiApps;
>
> location ~ \.cgi$ {
> include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
> fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/sysman_cgi.sock;
> fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_n$

Try: fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

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