i'm tring to deploy a simple flask script to a lighttpd server with fastcgi. this is the configuration file for lighttpd builded using the flask documentation http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/deploying/fastcgi/#configuring-lighttpd server.modules = ( "mod_access", "mod_alias", "mod_compress", "mod_redirect", "mod_rewrite", "mod_fastcgi", ) server.document-root = "/var/www" server.upload-dirs = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" ) server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log" server.pid-file = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid" server.username = "www-data" server.groupname = "www-data" index-file.names = ( "index.php", "index.html", "index.htm", "default.htm", " index.lighttpd.html" ) url.access-deny = ( "~", ".inc" ) static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" ) var.home_dir = "/var/lib/lighttpd" var.socket_dir = home_dir + "sockets/" ## Use ipv6 if available #include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl" dir-listing.encoding = "utf-8" server.dir-listing = "enable" compress.cache-dir = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/" compress.filetype = ( "application/x-javascript", "text/css", "text/html", "text/plain" ) include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl" include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/include-conf-enabled.pl" fastcgi.server = ("weibo/callback.fcgi" => (( "socket" => "/tmp/weibocrawler-fcgi.sock", "bin-path" => "/var/www/weibo/callback.fcgi", "check-local" => "disable", "max-procs" => 1 )) ) url.rewrite-once = ( "^(/weibo($|/.*))$" => "$1", "^(/.*)$" => "weibo/callback.fcgi$1" and this is the script i'm tring to run: #!/home/nrl/kuro/weiboenv/bin/python from flup.server.fcgi import WSGIServer from callback import app if __name__ == '__main__': WSGIServer(application, bindAddress='/tmp/weibocrawler-fcgi.sock').run() but i have this error testing the configuration file i get this error: 2013-07-02 17:15:42: (configfile.c.912) source: lighttpd.conf.new line: 52 pos: 1 parser failed somehow near here: weibo/callback.fcgi$1 when i remove the urlrewrite i get these errors in the log even if the daemon start: 2013-07-02 16:25:53: (log.c.166) server started 2013-07-02 16:25:53: (mod_fastcgi.c.1104) the fastcgi-backend fcgi.py failed to start: 2013-07-02 16:25:53: (mod_fastcgi.c.1108) child exited with status 2 fcgi.py 2013-07-02 16:25:53: (mod_fastcgi.c.1111) If you're trying to run your app as a FastCGI backend, make sure you're using the FastCGI-enabled version. If this is PHP on Gentoo, add 'fastcgi' to the USE flags. 2013-07-02 16:25:53: (mod_fastcgi.c.1399) [ERROR]: spawning fcgi failed. 2013-07-02 16:25:53: (server.c.938) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.