I have set up my web server to use the Cgi-bin. I edited the httpd.conf file and added:

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

I then restarted my web server. From my web browser I try to open "http://mydomain.com/hello.pl"
Then I get "error 403 forbidden You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/hello.pl on this server."
I have given read, write, and execute permissions on all the directories/files I can think of that would deal with this. When I telnet into my box I can run "perl hello.pl and it works. any one know what I am doing wrong?

1) Have you tried ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"

2) Also how are the <directory> tags setup for /var/www/cgi-bin?

I did not use quotes around the path in ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/". Should I ? I have included the directory tags that were located in the commonhttpd.conf file.

<Directory /var/www/cgi-bin>
AllowOverride All
Options ExecCGI
</Directory>

This is the one that I think may be causing me problems but I dont know.

<Directory />
Options -All -Multiviews
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
</Directory>

Try changing order to allow, deny instead of deny, allow

Tried it and still no luck. I get this error in my error log

[Thu Jan 23 17:41:42 2003] [error] [client 10.10.1.10] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/cgi-bin/hello.pl

Two things I can think of,

Add the AddHandler for .pl

<Directory /var/www/cgi-bin>
AllowOverride All
Options ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
</Directory>

Obvious but sometimes overlooked, the cgi-bin directory and all cgi scripts must have execute privileges. Do a chmod -R 755 on the directory if they don't