Fastcgi not working?

About 3 weeks ago I installed FastCGI on my server. I have yet to run an
fcgi script sucessfully. So I pulled together a test.fcgi file I could call
directly which consists of the following code:

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
require 'fcgi'

FCGI.each do |request|
request.out.print "Content-type: text/plain\r\n\r\n"
request.out.print "This is a test."
request.finish
end


It stalls for 30 seconds and then coughs up an "Error 500".

This is the apache error_log resulting form a clean httpd restart
immediately followed by calling the above url (the test.fgi page) 

[Wed Mar 30 14:28:45 2005] [warn] NameVirtualHost xx.x1.35.139:80 has no
VirtualHosts
[Wed Mar 30 14:28:45 2005] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized
(pid 1441)
[Wed Mar 30 14:28:46 2005] [notice] Apache configured -- resuming normal
operations
[Wed Mar 30 14:28:46 2005] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper:
/usr/local/apache/bin/suexec)
[Wed Mar 30 14:28:46 2005] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)
FastCGI: can't start server "/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" (pid 1457),
execle() failed: No such file or directory
[Wed Mar 30 14:29:01 2005] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
"/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" started (pid 1457)
[Wed Mar 30 14:29:01 2005] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
"/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" (pid 1457) terminated by calling exit
with status '255'
FastCGI: can't start server "/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" (pid 1459),
execle() failed: No such file or directory
[Wed Mar 30 14:29:06 2005] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
"/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" restarted (pid 1459)
[Wed Mar 30 14:29:06 2005] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
"/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" (pid 1459) terminated by calling exit
with status '255'
FastCGI: can't start server "/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" (pid 1460),
execle() failed: No such file or directory
[Wed Mar 30 14:29:11 2005] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
"/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" restarted (pid 1460)
[Wed Mar 30 14:29:11 2005] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
"/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" (pid 1460) terminated by calling exit
with status '255'
FastCGI: can't start server "/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" (pid 1461),
execle() failed: No such file or directory
[Wed Mar 30 14:29:16 2005] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
"/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" restarted (pid 1461)
[Wed Mar 30 14:29:16 2005] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
"/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" (pid 1461) terminated by calling exit
with status '255'
[Wed Mar 30 14:29:16 2005] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
"/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" has failed to remain running for 30
seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600
seconds
[Wed Mar 30 14:29:16 2005] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
"/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" has failed to remain running for 30
seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600
seconds
[Wed Mar 30 14:29:19 2005] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
"/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" has failed to remain running for 30
seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600
seconds
[Wed Mar 30 14:29:22 2005] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
"/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" has failed to remain running for 30
seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600
seconds
[Wed Mar 30 14:29:25 2005] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
"/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" has failed to remain running for 30
seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600
seconds
[Wed Mar 30 14:29:28 2005] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
"/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" has failed to remain running for 30
seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600
seconds
[Wed Mar 30 14:29:31 2005] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
"/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" has failed to remain running for 30
seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600
seconds
[Wed Mar 30 14:29:34 2005] [error] [client xx.x69.85.248] FastCGI: comm with
(dynamic) server "/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" aborted: (first read)
idle timeout (30 sec)
[Wed Mar 30 14:29:34 2005] [error] [client xx.x69.85.248] FastCGI:
incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
"/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi"
[Wed Mar 30 14:29:34 2005] [error] [client xx.x69.85.248] File does not
exist: /home/temple/public_html/500.shtml
[Wed Mar 30 14:29:34 2005] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
"/home/temple/public_html/test.fcgi" has failed to remain running for 30
seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600
seconds

Lots of

terminated by calling exit with status '255'"

Before the FastCGI install, any *.fcgi file would simply return its source
code as plain text, so the server has picked up the fcgi extension. I have
tried putting "AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi" in httpd.conf in the virtual
host, but taht seemed to have no effect. 
Permissions on the *.fcgi files are set to execute for all, same as *.cgi
files that all work fine.

It would appear that something is not correct. Any help with this is greatly
appreciated

Note: I used these install/config steps:
 
# wget  <http://www.fastcgi.com/dist/mod_fastcgi-2.4.2.tar.gz>
http://www.fastcgi.com/dist/mod_fastcgi-2.4.2.tar.gz

# tar xvzf mod_fastcgi-2.4.2.tar.gz

# cd mod_fastcgi-2.4.2

# /usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -o mod_fastcgi.so -c *.c

# /usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -i -a -n fastcgi mod_fastcgi.so

This should create an entry in httpd.conf that looks like this:

LoadModule fastcgi_module <some_path>/mod_fastcgi.so

Note that if there's a ClearModuleList directive after new entry,
you'll have to either move the LoadModule after the ClearModuleList
or add (have a look at how the other modules are handled):

AddModule mod_fastcgi.c

3. Edit the httpd configuration file(s) to enable your FastCGI
application(s). See docs/mod_fastcgi.html for details.

If you want to wrap the mod_fastcgi directives, use:

<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
.
.
</IfModule>

4. Stop and start the server.

# /etc/init.d/httpd stop
# /etc/init.d/httpd startssl

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