I know this has been covered, and I think I've read every prior thread on this issue. I'm having a problem with Apache displaying my .pl files as text as opposed to actually executing the files.

Here's the relevant part of my httpd.conf file:

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"

<IfModule mod_cgid.c>
#
# Additional to mod_cgid.c settings, mod_cgid has Scriptsock <path>
# for setting UNIX socket for communicating with cgid.
#
#Scriptsock logs/cgisock
</IfModule>

#
# "/var/www/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
# CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
#
<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

All permissions are set to 755.

If you can see something wrong with this PLEASE let me know. I'm running out of hairs to pull out.

Thanks,

Lance

Moved to Linux-Networking... Llwyd asked for Linux-General, but it fits betther here IMHO.

Suggestion: do you have mod_cgi (httpd -l)? Are you sure suexec is off?

No, I never installed mod_cgi.


"suEXEC feature which is never installed or activated by default"

I never enabled it, so I can safely say no.

You need mod_cgi.