Joomla or WordPress on a Plesk powered VPS

Permission and scripting errors running Joomla or WordPress on a Plesk powered environment?  The work around is to set directory permissions to 777 which is obviously a bad idea, so cutting the long story short, you’re most likely running PHP as the Apache user.  Change this to FastCGI and you’re off and running.  There just saved you hours of google searches.  🙂