                                Switchboard
                                =========== 

Welcome to switchboard.  switchboard is a FastCGI proxy that starts setuid FastCGI
processes on demand, in a similar manner to Apache suexec.  switchboard allows
mass web hosting environments to improve security by running FastCGI scripts as
the owner instead of the web server user, without the extra overhead that suexec
adds.   Its PHP support allows PHP scripts to run as FastCGI processes transparently,
without the overhead of other solutions like mod_suphp.

switchboard has been tested with Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 on Linux and
Solaris, and Apache 2.2.9 on Linux.

switchboard was written by River Tarnell <river@wikimedia.org> for the Wikimedia
Toolserver <http://toolserver.org/>.

Installing and running switchboard
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Please see the manual at https://confluence.toolserver.org/display/switchboard/Home
for documentation.  

Quick start:

$ ./configure
$ make
# make install

Bugs, feature requests
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Please report bugs and feature requests at <https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/SWTCH>.
