Farbflash

here's what I did to make fcgid run in my leopard apache 64-bit environment:

Download and unstuff fcgid 2.2:

wget http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mod-fcgid/mod_fcgid.2.2.tgz
tar -xzf mod_fcgid.2.2.tgz
cd mod_fcgid.2.2

now patch Makefile.

basically it is changing the path of top_dir from /usr/local/apache2 to /usr/share/httpd

and then add:

CFLAGS = -arch ppc -arch i386 -arch x86_64

and

CPPFLAGS = -arch ppc -arch i386 -arch x86_64

and

LDFLAGS = -arch ppc -arch i386 -arch x86_64

for the different architectures, so it compiles for 64-bit architecture.

you may also use the patch file and apply it like so:

wget http://www.farbflash.de/nix/fcgidpatch/Makefile_Leo.patch
patch -p0 Makefile < Makefile_Leo.patch

Now make and install the module:

make && sudo make install

If all went well you can check the architecture of the new module with:

file /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_fcgid.so

which should output something like:

/usr/libexec/apache2/mod_fcgid.so: Mach-O universal binary with 3 architectures
/usr/libexec/apache2/mod_fcgid.so (for architecture ppc7400):	Mach-O bundle ppc
/usr/libexec/apache2/mod_fcgid.so (for architecture i386):	Mach-O bundle i386
/usr/libexec/apache2/mod_fcgid.so (for architecture x86_64):	Mach-O 64-bit bundle x86_64

Now in order to use our new fcgid module we need to change the apache config and restart the server.

add the line to load the module to your httpd config file located at:

/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

LoadModule fcgid_module libexec/apache2/mod_fcgid.so
<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
  AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
  SocketPath /usr/lib/apache2/fcgid/sock
  SharememPath /usr/lib/apache2/fcgid/fcgid_shm
  IPCConnectTimeout 20
</IfModule>

And create the directory /usr/lib/apache2/fcgid/sock and make it writable to apache by chown it to _www

sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/apache2/fcgid/sock
sudo chown -R _www /usr/lib/apache2/

That's it, now down't forget to restart the server:

sudo apachectl graceful