Getting FastCGI to work with Movable Type blogging software

hi.

i am not a developer, not a programmer.

merely trying to get FastCGI to work with my blogging software > Movable Type.

I installed a new copy of the latest version of Movable Type. It runs no problem. Been running it for ~ a month now.

Read where FastCGI can provide "dramatic" performance improvements. 

Last weekend, I moved my site to new server which supports FastCGI. Lunarpages is my host. They verified new server supports FastCGI, but not much help configuring.

Seems the config isn't very difficult. This version of MT supports FCGI "out of the box".

Basically, you re-name five files from *.cgi to *.fcgi and modify the config file to tell the program to use the new *.fcgi files.

The program DOES indeed use the new files, yet I get an error:

# Copyright 2001-2007 Six Apart. This code cannot be redistributed without # permission from www.sixapart.com. For more information, consult your # Movable Type license. # # $Id: mt.cgi 1051 2007-01-23 23:52:24Z gboggs $ use strict; use lib $ENV{MT_HOME} ? "$ENV{MT_HOME}/lib" : 'lib'; use MT::Bootstrap App => 'MT::App::CMS'; 

The procedure to config MT with FastCGI is posted here:

http://www.lifewiki.net/sixapart/HostingMTUnderFastCGI

I posted my experience trying to get this to work here (much detail):

http://forums.sixapart.com/index.php?showtopic=62434

I should add that the extension .fcgi is listed in my site's cPanel as associated with "fastcgi-script" listed under "Apache Handlers".

In the Apache Handlers' control panel I also associated .fcgi extension with the .fcgi "System Defined Handler" Not sure if this was necessary.

When I run their test "HelloWorld".fcgi *with* their htaccess file in MT directory, I get 500 server error, but when I run it withOUT, I get good results, which would indicate fastCGI is working properly. (I may be wrong. You guys would know.)

Anyway, I am looking for help figuring this out.

I appreciate any & all help.

Joe 
Laguna Beach.
the blog is here:
http://blogs.radified.com/

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