Thanks for this Neil - very helpful.
I had one problem. When installing mod_fastcgi I got an error “cp: mod_fastcgi.so: No such file or directory”. So I followed the instructions with the download and did this instead:
cp Makefile.AP2 Makefile
make top_dir=/usr/share/httpd
sudo make install top_dir=/usr/share/httpd
/usr/share/httpd is where my apache2 stuff is — I’m not sure if this is standard on OS X or not.
I also seemed to have to uncomment this line:
#LoadModule fastcgi_module libexec/apache2/mod_fastcgi.so
in /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf or else I got Internal Server Errors.
I think it works now — there are no errors and Apache says “mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 configured” when starting up — but MT seems no quicker, so I’m not entirely convinced!
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