FastCGI using apache - not a script or wrong permission? - apache

Question

I compiled my fcgi for apache like this:
g++ fcgistart.c -lfcgi
I got a a.out and configure it for apache using
a2enmod fastcgi
Now i read the manual
Any program assigned to the handler fcgid-script is processed using the FastCGI protocol;
Does that mean the binary is a script? Wreid! Anyway I place the a.out to /var/www/html.
Because the handler (/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/fastcgi.conf) binds to .fcgi I copy a.out to a.fcgi. Now i browse to http://localhost/a.fcgi and a 403-forbidden occourse.
xx#xx:/var/www/html$ ls -la
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 13:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 6 12:56 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8696 Feb 6 13:44 a.fcgi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8696 Feb 6 13:16 a.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11321 Feb 6 12:57 index.html
What is wrong?

Answer 1

I got it:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
is wrong, I had to add the ExecCGI option:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
<Directory /var/www/html>
Options +ExecCGI
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>