Setting up FastCGI on Redhat Fedora 4

The two things that had me stuck for hours when setting up FastCGI were:

1. It will not install if your /etc/httpd/logs/ directory is a symbolic link. The solution was to move all logs somewhere with lots of space, reconfigure Apache to use the new location for logging, replace the symlink with a real logs directory and then install. Of course, if you're happy with log files being written in /etc/ then keep them there if you like. Remember to update logsrotate to point at the new location of your log files and reload or restart Apache.

2. You need httpd-devel installed. I used yum to do this painlessly.

FastCGI installed fine after the 4 hours of banging my head against the wall over those two slightly undocumented requirements.