Good day I got hit by this bug as well on debian squeeze, it took hours to find this mail
Please fix this, patch is trivial. I attached the error log from lighttpd for reference Thanks, Karsten
2009-06-26 22:55:02: (log.c.97) server started 2009-06-26 22:55:02: (mod_fastcgi.c.1051) the fastcgi-backend /usr/share/pyshared/trac/web/fcgi_frontend.py failed to start: 2009-06-26 22:55:02: (mod_fastcgi.c.1055) child exited with status 13 /usr/share/pyshared/trac/web/fcgi_frontend.py 2009-06-26 22:55:02: (mod_fastcgi.c.1058) If you're trying to run PHP as a FastCGI backend, make sure you're using the FastCGI-enabled version. You can find out if it is the right one by executing 'php -v' and it should display '(cgi-fcgi)' in the output, NOT '(cgi)' NOR '(cli)'. For more information, check http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Docs%3AModFastCGI#preparing-php-as-a-fastcgi-programIf this is PHP on Gentoo, add 'fastcgi' to $ 2009-06-26 22:55:02: (mod_fastcgi.c.1365) [ERROR]: spawning fcgi failed. 2009-06-26 22:55:02: (server.c.902) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.