Apache ignores access control when using FastCGI

That's not an accurate, or at least not a complete, statement. Apache ignores file-based access control in this case, because Apache isn't handling the files, your FastCGI server is. Access controls in a Location section work as expected.

Perhaps it should be added to the FastCGI documentation in a very emphatic and clear way? Maybe it should also default to no access without an explicit declaration of what the user wants (though that would break people's configurations, so would need to happen in a major revision).

As it's pointed at the 3rd comment https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56084#c3 This is just a mis-configuration not a bug.

  Hans 2014-01-29 04:31:41 UTC

  It's an Apache misconfiguration that's not pointed out very clearly.

  The following is the fix:
        <Location /fcgi-php-fpm>
            # here we prevent direct access to this Location url,
            # env=REDIRECT_STATUS will let us use this fcgi-bin url
            # only after an internal redirect (by Action upper)
            Order Deny,Allow
            Deny from all
            Allow from env=REDIRECT_STATUS
        </Location>

  It would be useful to point this out somewhere.

  The above restricts direct access, but not internal access via PHP-FPM sockets.