Mongoose Web Server Common Problems

PHP doesn't work - getting empty page, or 'File not found' error. The reason for that is wrong paths to the interpreter. Remember that with PHP, correct interpreter is php-cgi.exe (php-cgi on UNIX). Solution: specify full path to the PHP interpreter, e.g.: mongoose -cgi_interpreter /full/path/to/php-cgi
Mongoose fails to start. If Mongoose exits immediately when run, this usually indicates a syntax error in the configuration file (named mongoose.conf by default) or the command-line arguments. Syntax checking is omitted from Mongoose to keep its size low. However, the Manual should be of help. Note: the syntax changes from time to time, so updating the config file might be necessary after executable update.
Embedding with OpenSSL on Windows might fail because of calling convention. To force Mongoose to use __stdcall convention, add /Gz compilation flag in Visual Studio compiler.