How to install mod_fastcgi on Ubuntu “Lucid” 10.04 LTS

UPDATE 04/26/2011: If you are installing mod_fastcgi for the purpose of hosting a PHP based application like WordPress, you should consider using PHP-FPM, which is a process spawner and manager for php that is included in PHP 5.3+. Check out my tutorial for installing NGINX, PHPFPM, MySQL, and WordPress.

Problem:

When you attempt to install mod_fastcgi for apache 2.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 using “apt-get install libapache2-mod-fastcgi” you recieve the Error “E: Package libapache2-mod-fastcgi has no installation candidate.”

Solution:

1. Add multiverse to lucid main within apt sources:

   nano /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Add these lines to the bottom of the file:

   deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid main restricted multiverse
   deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid main restricted multiverse

3. Update apt

   apt-get update

4. Download mod-fastcgi from newly added repositories

   apt-get install libapache2-mod-fastcgi

5. Success!