Many people know about the old school mod_fastcgi, but very few know about mod_fcgid. To put it extremely briefly, if you are using Apache 2, and you should be, you should be using modfcgid, and not modfastcgi. Here quick guide on how to configure mod_fcgid for use with Apache HTTPD 2.2.0 and Typo, a RoR blog engine: Download and Prepare mod_fcgid wget http://fastcgi.coremail.cn/mod_fcgid.1.07.tar