Apache2 FastCGI and PHP5

Hi All

I hope my question is not out of place, but I don't know where else to 
turn. I am currently trying to configure my CentOS 4.6 web server to run 
PHP5 (cgi) via FastCGI, and it seems that FastCGI is not cooperating.

The specs:

Apache 2.0.59
PHP 5.2.5
FastCGI 2.4.0
mod_fastcgi 2.4.6

The problem:

I want to have a web server directory (in this case a whole virtual 
host) that executes PHP scripts via PHP5 CGI (via FastCGI).

Apache2 loads mod_fastcgi happily. My virtual host contains a Directory 
directive:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php .php5
Action     application/x-httpd-php5 /cgi-bin/php5.fcgi

The php5.fcgi script contains the following:

#!/bin/sh
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=2
export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN
PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=5000
export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS
exec /usr/local/php5/bin/php-cgi

The executable (php-cgi) it refers to is in place and tested ok.

But, when I access / execute a PHP script in that directory Apache 
appears to hand to control over to FastCGI and then hang until Apache 
returns a 500 Internal Server Error.

To me it seems that FastCGI is not responding or handing the script over 
to the PHP5 executable as it should.

Any ideas what I should look at next?

Thanks!

Paul S.
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