fastcgi apache2 [error] (13)

Hi All,

If this is the wrong place to post this, or simply just a terminally  
stupid question I apologise in advance, and will humbly accept any  
criticism, particularly if it is constructive!

I've installed mod_fastcgi-2.4.6 and am attempting to use it with  
apache 2 with fedora 8 to serve trac/svn. I've done this previously on  
MacosX with very little difficulty (none as far mod_fastcgi was  
concerned. However with the fedora installation, I've had lots of  
problems, culminating in the current one which I cannot resolve. The  
problem seems to be permissions related,  when trying to access the  
web site the server gives a error message relating to permissions on a  
trac file (which is not the issue - I chmoded everything to 777 to  
test it). However the apache error log, which presumably is more  
informative and specific gives the following error message after the  
usual start up notices:

[error] (13)Permission denied: FastCGI: apr_dir_open() failed
[notice]......
[notice].....
[error] (13)Permission denied: FastCGI: apr_dir_open() failed
[notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid nnnnn)
[notice] Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8b SVN/ 
1.4.4 mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 configured - resuming normal operations

according to apachectl -t everything is OK.


Is there anyway to get a little more information (as in which file/ 
directory specifically is giving the problem with the apr_dir_open)  
out of FastCGI? Why does the error message occur twice (mod_fastcgi is  
only included once in httpd.conf)? How come the FastCGI process  
manager initialises OK despite the error messages?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have gone through all the  
documentation for mod_fastcgi, apache2 etc that I can find, but  
couldn't find anything relevant.


Regards,
Liam Elbourne.