CGI - tried dozens of things - still wont work

overlooking something

[appleman58]

Ok folks,
I need to allow a cgi folder in some of my virtual hosts public_html folders.

What is the best way to configure this? In documentation, there seems to be three different ways. None of which will work (Internal Server Error)

Anyone have a step by step thats painless?

I am using OS X and there may be, I suspect, a permissions issue. Something that was easy to take care of with Fetch when I upload my cgi scripts to my "outside" web hosting co.)

[bird]

can you be more specific about the "solutions" that didn't work? Otherwise all we can do is just repeat the documentation here...

One possibility when you try .htaccess based approaches is that the central server configuration has the required features disabled for .htaccess. Apart from that it's anyones guess right now.

[appleman58]

When I use the path to the default cgi, it works fine, the test-cgi script that is. As soon as I try to set up a scriptalias directive, such as

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /library/Apache2/htdocs/sites/example.com/public_html/cgi-bin/

and try to install the first.pl script (documentation) it fails.