I recently installed some software on my webserver (Fedora Core 2 running Apache 1.3) that runs in the cgi-bin. It generates graphs as png files in a subdirectory off of the cgi-bin

For example:
Program sits in /cgi-bin/prog/
Writes png files to /cgi-bin/prog/images

When you try to view the images in the web browser, they appear as broken images. If I move the images to the folder:

/images (directly under htdocs)

it works fine and I can see them. I cannot really configure the program as it was a download. I think that Apache is trying to execute the png or something which is why it is appearing as broken. Is there a way to allow png's to sit under cgi-bin without breaking them in a browser?

Thanks

By broken do you mean an invalid link icon? Maybe the permissions of the files or directories isnt right for the apache user to view them?

I don't think it is a permission issue. When I try to view the image from the cgi-bin directory, I get a 500 error and this appears in the Apache error_log:

[Fri Aug 27 09:00:05 2004] [error] (8)Exec format error: exec of /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/rrdmon/images/Localhost+2583+7200+linux+ping+300.png failed
[Fri Aug 27 09:00:05 2004] [error] [client 10.0.32.43] Premature end of script headers: /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/rrdmon/images/Localhost+2583+7200+linux+ping+300.png

That error appears when the permissions on the image are 755. When I change the permissions to 644, I get a 403 error:

You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/rrdmon/images/Localhost+2583+7200+linux+ping+300.png on this server.

Any ideas? This is really starting to drive me crazy because it is probably something simple that I missed.