Connection reset by peer: mod_fcgid: error reading data from FastCGI server

I managed to solved this by adding FcgidBusyTimeout . Just in case if anyone have similar issue with me.

Here is my settings on my apache.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>
.......
<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
FcgidBusyTimeout 3600
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>

I had very similar errors in the Apache2 log files:

(104)Connection reset by peer: mod_fcgid: error reading data from FastCGI server
Premature end of script headers: phpinfo.php

After checking the wrapper scripts and Apache2 settings, I realized that /var/www/ did not have accordant permissions. Thus the FCGId Wrapper scripts could not be read at all.

ls -la /var/www
drwxrws---  5 www-data     www-data     4096 Oct  7 11:17 .

For my scenario chmod -o+rx /var/www was required of course, since the used SuExec users are not member of www-data user group - and they should not be member for security reasons of course.

if you want to install a PHP version < 5.3.0, you must replace

--enable-cgi

with:

--enable-fastcgi

in your ./configure statement, excerpt from the php.net doc:

--enable-fastcgi

If this is enabled, the CGI module will be built with support for FastCGI also. Available since PHP 4.3.0

As of PHP 5.3.0 this argument no longer exists and is enabled by --enable-cgi instead. After the compilation the ./php-cgi -v should look like this:

PHP 5.2.17 (cgi-fcgi) (built: Jul  9 2013 18:28:12)
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies

NOTICE THE (cgi-fcgi)