Running Fossil as a standalone service is often undesirable and running it using CGI can also cause performance, security or configuration issues. I suggest implementing [http://www.fastcgi.com/|FastCGI interface] (see also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastCGI|the Wikipedia article] for overview). It is supported by majority of todays web servers, it is efficient and easy to implement. I suppose that modifying Fossil standalone web server to implement FastCGI interface could be quite easy using [http://www.fastcgi.com/drupal/node/5|FastCGI devkit] and it would be quite nice complement to <i>server</i> and <i>cgi</i> commands.

There has been a discussion concerning [http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg02068.html|SCGI] and also a [http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg00194.html|question about FastCGI] on the mailing list, but AFAIK without a definite conclusion.

If it is difficult to implement for some reason, please add a notice into FAQ or somewhere else in the documentation. Thanks.