It could be that you are using Apache 1.4 insead of 2, but I haven’t done any testing with older versions myself. Is there any reason you haven’t upgraded to the new apache?

It looks like my post got munched a little bit during an edit. There should be four lines here that need to be added to the httpd.conf:
<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
FastCgiIpcDir /tmp/fcgi_ipc/
AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
</IfModule>

if you run apachectl configtest, does it pass okay?

I am a newbie with Rails (even If I am writing OO since 92…) I successfully installed it on my Cube (OS X 10.4.6, Apache 1.4, MySQL 4.1.18)…
I am trying to hook up Rails into Apache, according to your instructions..
BUT
1- LoadModule fastcgi_module libexec/httpd/mod_fastcgi.so
and
AddModule mod_fastcgi.c were added to my conf file
seems quite normal…
2- FastCgiIpcDir /tmp/fcgi_ipc/ and AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi where not in my httpd.conf file, so I added these lines… (maybe at the wrong place.. in a block :

FastCgiIpcDir /tmp/fcgi_ipc/
AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
)
2- when navigating to httpd://localhost/TestRailsSite/
I get an error msg :
The requested URL /TestRailsSite/ was not found on this server…. and the var log gives :
File does not exist: /Library/WebServer/Documents/TestRailsSite/
fastcgi is running well…
[Wed Jun 7 08:40:30 2006] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid 13286)
[Wed Jun 7 08:40:30 2006] [notice] Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin) PHP/5.0.4 mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_jk/1.2.5 mod_ssl/2.8.24 OpenSSL/0.9.7i DAV/1.0.3 configured — resuming normal operations
…. seems to be a problem with the directory definition but I am not an indian… so Apache is a little bit confusing…
is it the fact that I am using Apache 1.4 and not 2.0 ?

thansk for your advices

Yves