Apache mod_proxy_fcgi and PHP-FPM (php-cgi.exe) issue (No input file specified.) on Windows

Question

The following is PHP-FPM (PHP 5.5)

php-cgi.exe -b 127.0.0.1:9000

The following is mod_proxy_fcgi (Apache 2.4)

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Answer 1

I was getting this error when following the steps indicated here to run PHP under Apache on Windows via FastCGI:

https://www.orbitale.io/2017/11/11/apache-and-php-fpm-in-windows.html

After setting up php-cgi.exe as a service on port 9000 (using NSSM) and setting httpd.conf to handle php files as such:

    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html



    SetHandler "proxy:fcgi://127.0.0.1:9000#"

I was getting this same error when navigating to localhost (which contained an index.php with a simple .

I was getting worried until I tried editing my php.ini where I defined the doc_root directive:

doc_root = C:\Apache24\htdocs

Having done that and having restarted my Apache service, voilà I got the php info page! I'm using PHP 7.3.5 NTS x64 with Apache 2.4 x64.