When tried to use Apache 2.2, mod_proxy_fcgi and PHP-FPM applications behave improperly due to invalid values of following crucial $_SERVER (variable used by PHP) values: - "PHP_SELF" - "SCRIPT_NAME" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make sure you have Apache 2.2 installed, PHP version should not matter (mine was 5.6.9) as long as you have "fpm" USE flag enabled, 2. Unmask and install www-apache/mod_proxy_fcgi 3. Start php-fpm using init script 4. Create new virtual host for Apache and make it use ProxyPassMatch directive like so: ProxyPassMatch ^/(.*\.php(/.*)?)$ fcgi://127.0.0.1:9000/your/new/vhost/document_root/$1 5. Reload Apache configuration 6. Under DocumentRoot of new VirtualHost create new "index.php" file printing out whole $_SERVER variable: print_r($_SERVER) 7. Check values of "PHP_SELF" and "SCRIPT_NAME" Actual Results: [SCRIPT_NAME] => (empty value) [PHP_SELF] => /your/new/vhost/document_root/index.php Expected Results: [SCRIPT_NAME] => /index.php [PHP_SELF] => /index.php I have actually solved this issue by compiling and using latest version of "mod_proxy_fcgi" from: https://github.com/ceph/mod-proxy-fcgi To fix the bug it might be as easy as updating package to more recent version. $ emerge --info Portage 2.2.18 (python 2.7.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.8.4, glibc-2.20-r2, 4.0.5-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.0.5-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5405_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 2049252 total, 157496 free KiB Swap: 2097148 total, 2020144 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:00:01 +0000 sh bash 4.3_p33-r2 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24 app-shells/bash: 4.3_p33-r2::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.20.2::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.9-r1::gentoo, 3.3.5-r1::gentoo, 3.4.1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.2.2::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.16.4::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.4::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.18::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.20-r2::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1 AdobeFlash-10.1 Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ ftp://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ rsync://de-mirror.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.pw.edu.pl/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="acl acpi amd64 apache2 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt curl cxx dbus device-mapper dmx dri fam ffmpeg fortran fuse gd gdbm gnutls iconv icu idn imlib ipv6 jpeg ldap lm_sensors memcached mmx mmxext modules multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl odbc openmp pam pcre perl php png python readline samba session sqlite sse sse2 ssl ssse3 system-sqlite tcpd tiff unicode upnp xattr xml zip zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias auth_digest proxy proxy_balancer" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="pl en" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-4 php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa fbdev mga" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" USE_PYTHON="2.7 3.3 3.4" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Forgot to notice, that this bug is also discussed (and fixed) on Apache's BugZilla: https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51517
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 532858 ***