--- lighttpd-1.4.13.orig/src/mod_fastcgi.c	2007-01-28 05:44:04.000000000 -0800
+++ lighttpd-1.4.13.orig/src/mod_fastcgi.c	2007-01-28 05:49:32.000000000 -0800
@@ -906,6 +906,7 @@ 
 			char *c;
 			char_array env;
 			char_array arg;
+			int fd;
 
 			/* create environment */
 			env.ptr = NULL;
@@ -922,6 +923,28 @@ 
 				close(fcgi_fd);
 			}
 
+			/* HACK:
+			 * This is not nice, but it works
+			 *
+			 * we feed the stderr of the FastCGI to our errorlog,
+			 * for messages that were written to stderr by mistake.
+			 *
+			 * this violates the fastcgi SPEC because stderr
+			 * should be closed and all errors are meant to be
+			 * sent as FCGI_STDERR packets to the webserver and
+			 * not written directly to the log.
+			 */
+
+			if ((srv->errorlog_mode == ERRORLOG_FILE) || (srv->errorlog_mode == ERRORLOG_PIPE)) {
+				close(STDERR_FILENO);
+				dup2(srv->errorlog_fd, STDERR_FILENO);
+			} else {
+				if (-1 != (fd = open("/dev/null", O_WRONLY))) {
+					close(STDERR_FILENO);
+					dup2(fd, STDERR_FILENO);
+					close(fd);
+				}
+			}
 			/* we don't need the client socket */
 			for (i = 3; i < 256; i++) {
 				close(i);
--- lighttpd-1.4.13.orig/src/server.c	2006-10-04 06:30:52.000000000 -0700
+++ lighttpd-1.4.13.orig/src/server.c	2007-01-28 05:49:32.000000000 -0800
@@ -844,6 +844,16 @@ 
 		pid_fd = -1;
 	}
 
+	if (-1 == log_error_open(srv)) {
+		log_error_write(srv, __FILE__, __LINE__, "s",
+				"opening errorlog failed, dying");
+
+		plugins_free(srv);
+		network_close(srv);
+		server_free(srv);
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	if (HANDLER_GO_ON != plugins_call_set_defaults(srv)) {
 		log_error_write(srv, __FILE__, __LINE__, "s", "Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.");
 
@@ -894,15 +904,6 @@ 
 		return -1;
 	}
 
-	if (-1 == log_error_open(srv)) {
-		log_error_write(srv, __FILE__, __LINE__, "s",
-				"opening errorlog failed, dying");
-
-		plugins_free(srv);
-		network_close(srv);
-		server_free(srv);
-		return -1;
-	}
 
 
 #ifdef HAVE_SIGACTION