Trouble installing Ruby on Rails with Apache 2 on Linux

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Hi, I'm running Fedora Core 5 Linux on an x86 machine with Apache 2.2. I'm trying to install Ruby on Rails using the instructions here (http://blog.eukhost.com/2006/09/30/ruby-on-rails/). If anyone has better instructions, please let me know!

I was unable to install mod_fastcgi because of errors it was giving me. Skipping that step, I completed the rest of the steps, including

echo "FastCgiIpcDir /tmp/fcgi/" >> /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf echo "AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi" >> /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf echo "FastCgiWrapper On" >> /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf

but got this error when I restarted my Apache 2 server ...

Syntax error on line 448 of /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf: Invalid command 'FastCgiIpcDir', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

Any ideas what's going wrong?

Thanks, - Dave

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Thanks. These are some good links, but what I can't seem to find is what directives I need to put in my httpd.conf file to recognize pages written in ruby and pass those along to the correct interpreter. Do you have a tutorial with the step-by-step setup?

Thanks, -Dave

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So long as your document root is pointed at /public and .htaccess is turned on you should be OK (unless you are configuring for something fancy like Mongrel).