Configure IIPImage external application on OpenLiteSpeed server

[jloerincs]

Hello,

I am very new to working with servers so please bear with me! I have tried reading the docs but everything is so high level I cannot understand what they are trying to convey.
I would really appreciate it if someone took the time to walk me through the basics of OpenLiteSpeed.

All I want is to set up an OpenLiteSpeed server locally and run an external application (IIPImage) for testing purposes. I have successfully installed OpenLiteSpeed and I can access the webAdmin console and the example page at localhost:7080 and localhost:8088 respectively. I have installed IIPImage on my machine and now I want to link the external application iipsrv.fcgi to my OpenLiteSpeed server. I have followed the documentation provided by IIPImage to the letter where they guide you through the web server configuration process of IIPImage, but nothing I try works. What could I be doing wrong? The documentation is sparse and references the old version of OpenLiteSpeed but it is the only thing I have to work on.

I first set up a new virtual host entitled iipsrv-vhost, I defined the external application and pointed to the iipsrv.fcgi file in my fcgi-bin directory. I created a new context linking it to my new iipsrv-vhost virtual host. When I test to see if a page loads at the address I specified, the page is not found (unable to connect).

Is there some major noob mistake I am making here? Any help or explanations on how OpenLiteSpeed runs external applications would be appreciated!

My OS is CentOS7

 

[Pong]

What's the URL you tried?
Also on the server, If the backend running:
netstat -na | grep 9000

 

[jloerincs]

What's the URL you tried?
Also on the server, If the backend running:
netstat -na | grep 9000

Hello! Thanks for the reply. I have checked and the backend server is running correctly, netstat -na | grep 9000 shows that my fcgi application is listening on the correct port.

In terms of the URL, I tried: "localhost/fcgi-bin/iipsrv.fcgi"

Is this correct? The external fcgi application I want to access is iipsrv.fcgi within my fcgi-bin directory. The documentation I am following states:
"Once the server is installed and configured, pointing a web browser to the iipsrv FCGI URL without any argument (e.g., myurl/fcgi-bin/iipsrv.fcgi) should return a web page".

In this case, I assumed 'myurl' was just localhost since I am running everything on my machine for testing.

I checked the error logs and I am getting the following errors on graceful restarts (as shown in the attached image):
---> [lsphp.00]: Failed to start one instance. pid: -1
---> [config:server:vhosts:vhost:iipsrv-vhost:context:/fcgi-bin/] Can not find handler with type: 11, name: iipsrv-app.

I assume with the second error that the path to my external application is somehow incorrect, I am not sure how though. As to the first error, I also am unsure as to what it means. I ran the PHP test page and everything worked fine. Any ideas?

Another question I had was whether or not I needed to create a seperate listener in order to access my external application?

Thanks!

 

[Pong]

If you follow that wiki along, it should work. maybe you can try something on a cloud VPS and log a ticket and give us tmp root access to check?