Debian Etch, mod_fcgid & php4

There are a fair few howto's out there with instructions on getting php4 & fcgid working together, but it seems none of them have been tested properly. PHP5 works easily following the instructions, but not PHP4 - so here's my extra notes to get it working.

I had to strace apache a few times to figure out exactly what was going on since it fcgid doesn't provide any useful logging. This can easily be done with "strace -f -p {pid_of_the_apache_process_answering_the_request} -e read=all -e write=all -o strace_output.txt" - this will give you something to look for when debugging.

The main difference between most of the existing howto's is the exec line in the php-fcgi-wrapper. Although "apt-get install php4-cgi" provides you with /usr/bin/php4-cgi - and it seems you would use this, you _don't_ use it. You need to use /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php4. You should be able to figure out the rest with the existing howto's.

ClusterSSH in Leopard

Unfortunately the DarwinPorts way of installing ClusterSSH doesn't work, so you gotta do it manually. Good news is you don't have to re-invent the wheel. Someone has kindly posted the procedure at: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2008-January/008336.html