Digging through some mailing list archives, I found a solution[1] (maybe) to my occasional fastcgi deaths, which return 500''s. Since I don''t have access to httpd.conf on my hosted server, is it possible to modify my .htaccess file in order to increase the idle-timeouts for fastcgi? What is the syntax? I tried adding the line: FastCgiConfig -idle-timeout 1200 -maxClassProcesses 5 to .htaccess, but that didn''t work. Thanks, Bryce http://lightincense.com [1] http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2005-March/004475.html