If the CGI area is created with a ScriptAlias, then a symlink won't work, because the mapping of URL to Filename has already happened and the "this is a CGI script" bit wasn't set.

You have many options available to you, but they almost all depend on changing configuration settings. If you're the webmaster, you need to do some reading. If you're not the webmaster, you need to talk to the webmaster to get what you want.

That's one of the problems of diagnosing web-related issues at places like here at the Monastery: there's just so many variations of what is going on.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker