cgi-bin not working in a new account

[SupermanInNY]

[RESOLVED] - SEE BELOW

Hi all,

I have a user who wants to add CGI option to his account.
Initially he did not have the cgi option enabled.

Since this is a new account, I've deleted the account and recreated it with the CGI option enabled.
I get Server Errors:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@domain.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and
anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________


Apache/1.3.33 Server at domain.com Port 80



The file that I have there is called perldiver.cgi and it is chowned to the username and group corrrectly and has 755 on it.

Where do the CGI enabled/disabled is set? Perhaps it is still pointing to the Disabled entry when I first created the account and it didn't update?

The same script works fine in a different account.
The httpd.conf file shows as follow:



<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>
ServerAlias domain.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@domain.com
DocumentRoot /home/domain/public_html
BytesLog domlogs/domain.com-bytes_log
ServerName www.domain.com

User domain
Group domain
CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/domain.com combined
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/domain/public_html/cgi-bin/
</VirtualHost>

Once last thing:

The domain has not resolved yet, so I'm using lynx via ssh to access the pages.

any suggestions?

-Alon.

[RESOLVED] - SEE BELOW
I followed the instrutions
I went to the server error log and tailed it.

/usr/local/apache/logs => tail -f error_log

I then saw the error it generated and the reason.
The user has uploaded a .htaccess file to the cgi-bin area:


[Tue Oct 11 10:36:16 2005] [alert] [client 1.2.3.4] /home/domain/public_html/cgi-bin/.htaccess: Options not allowed here
[Tue Oct 11 10:36:16 2005] [error] [client 1.2.3.4] File does not exist: /home/domain/public_html/500.shtml

I renamed the .htaccess to .htaccess-old and Voilla,. the file pulls up fine.

-Alon.