Only Fast-CGI works

I've been looking for a solution to this. Whenever I set a site's PHP mode to anything other than Fast-CGI (CGI/Mod-PHP/SuPHP) the site returns an 500 error.

I found out because I tried to override PHP settings with an htaccess (max filesize upload) which wouldn't work for me. (Help with that would be appreciated as well)

 

I have looked into the errorlogs before I posted my problem here, the only thing I could find in the apache log was a

Code:

[warn] long lost child came home! (pid ...) 

and

Code:

[warn] (103)Software caused connection abort: mod_fcgid: ap_pass_brigade failed in handle_request function

other than that... nothing.

 

I checked both, upper warn came from general, lower one from site specific one.

Edit:
I now got some additional errors from trying again:

Code:

[Wed Aug 05 09:06:49 2009] [alert] [client ***.***.***.***] /****************/.htaccess: php_flag not allowed here

EDIT2:

I've now narrowed it down to my .htaccess file. The server will return 500 errors if I use php_flag of php_value in my .htaccess file. Below a copy of the .htaccess file causing trouble.

Code:

# AddDefaultCharset     UTF-8
AddType text/x-component .htc

<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_flag       display_errors  Off
php_flag       log_errors      On
php_value      error_log       logs/errors

php_value      upload_max_filesize     5M
php_value      post_max_size   6M
php_value      memory_limit    64M

php_value      zlib.output_compression 0
php_value      magic_quotes_gpc        0
php_value      zend.ze1_compatibility_mode     0

php_value      session.auto_start      0
php_value      session.gc_maxlifetime  21600
php_value      session.gc_divisor      500
php_value      session.gc_probability  1

php_value      mbstring.func_overload  0
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^favicon.ico$ skins/default/images/favicon.ico
</IfModule>

Order deny,allow

 

Thanks very much, everything seems to work fine now. However I was wondering if I could set the php_flag and php_value for specific folders in my website.

 

Isn't there any way to make directory specific php_flags and values?

 

Okay, then thanks for all your help! I know I've been a pain in the a**! xD

 

I uses php_value in my .htaccess files and it works.

Code:

<IfModule mod_php5.c>
  php_value magic_quotes_gpc                0
  php_value register_globals                0
  php_value session.auto_start              0
  php_value mbstring.http_input             pass
  php_value mbstring.http_output            pass
  php_value mbstring.encoding_translation   0
  php_value output_buffering On
  php_value output_handler mb_output_handler
  php_value log_errors 1
</IfModule>

EDIT: It works with suPHP. It may not with CGI or Fast-CGI.