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Enabling CGI in Apache virtual hosts

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Add this to the Apache configuration:

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/html/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/var/www/html/cgi-bin">
        Options +ExecCGI
        AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
</Directory>

Reload Apache and throw this in as test.cgi into your cgi-bin directory:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello, World.";

Do not omit the content-type on your perl scripts. If you do, Apache will throw a random 500 Internal Server Error and it won’t log anything about it.