Hi, I''m new to rails and fastcgi and struggled for a day to get it working properly. I thought I''d share what ultimately got things working for me to save anyone else the problems I had. (I''m also new to this list so forgive me if I''m saying something that everyone already knows...) First-off - this is how I got *dynamic* fastcgi working. There are a couple of other modes of operation for fastcgi that I didn''t try because I wanted dynamic (if anyone has advice saying "DON''T DO THAT" then please let me know). Anyhow, if you see an error like: bind() failed [/etc/httpd/logs/fastcgi/dynamic/9862e4fbdd2564d909403a081ffde384] It means that apache can''t talk to the fcgi process via IPC. Now there''s a lot of info which says to set FastCgiIpcDir in your apache httpd.conf. However, I tried setting this to something like /tmp/fastcgi and it still gave me the error. I then stumbled upon two bits of info: 1 - by default, fastcgi uses /tmp/fcgi as the directory. I''m sure there''s a way to configure fastcgi (probably at compile-time) but simply using that directory is one step that got me there. I.e. I put this in my httpd.conf FastCgiIpcDir /tmp/fcgi 2 - it seems that you need to set the User and Group in httpd.conf *before* you load the fcgi module (to make sure fcgi and apache both have same perms to look at /tmp/fcgi). Again, there may be another way to do this but I simply moved the following two lines to the top of my httpd.conf file (with no other ill-effects): User apache Group apache Anyhow, that''s it. I hope the info helps. Regards, Trevor