Hi, today i tried to use the apache mod_fastcgi to skip the cgi-wrapper. after fighting a little bit with apache i discovered that the configuration snippet in WEBSERVER.txt is wrong: FastCgiExternalServer /PATH/TO/apache/htdocs/zope \ -socket /tmp/zope.soc \ -pass-header Authorization the "-socket /tmp/zope.soc" makes you think that the module takes absolute paths but that's not the case. the path is always relative to FastCgiIpcDir (= /tmp/fcgi in last release.) i sugget to modify the example as follow: -------- # zope and apache should have rwx permission to the following # directory, to create (zope) and connect (apache) to the ipc socket FastCgiIpcDir /your/ipc/dir # note the relative path to the ipc socket in the following directive FastCgiExternalServer /PATH/TO/apache/htdocs/zope \ -socket zope.soc \ -pass-header Authorization ------- and also change "-F /tmp/zope.soc" to "-F /your/ipc/dir/zope.soc" about 20 lines above. note also that using /tmp as the socket directory is... mmm... bad if you have a daemon like tmpreaper running. finally, maybe someone is interested in how to use an url like http://localhost and have fastcgi call zope. this is how i did it: <VirtualHost localhost> DocumentRoot /var/www RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*) RewriteRule ^/(.*) /zope/$1 \ [e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l] FastCgiExternalServer /var/www/zope -socket Z2-fcgi.soc \ -pass-header Authorization -flush SetHandler fastcgi-script </VirtualHost> very usefull for production sites running multiple virtual hosts. ciao, federico -- Federico Di Gregorio MIXAD LIVE System Programmer fog@mixadlive.com Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact fog@debian.org A short story: I want you. I love you. I'll miss you. -- Me