Hi All, I have written a cgi script to display an image in the browser. I want to use it only locally on my computer (so it is not a public website). When I was opening this script from the browser, I see the code rather than the output of the code. I was suggested to install a webserver and configure the httpd.conf file to do this job. So, I have installed Apache in my home directory and modified the httpd.conf file to include the following (as per the suggestion given in this forum) 
<Directory "/home/nagesh/apache/cgi-bin">
        AllowOverride None
        Options ExecCGI
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
</Directory>

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After doing this, I again tried to open the cgi script (located in /home/nagesh/apache/cgi-bin) from the browser after running chmod 755 on it. This is still displaying the code rather than executing it. Can some please let me know is there any other changes I need to include in httpd.conf file to do this job. Any help would be greatly appreciated (Please note that I have no experience in webservers). Thanks very much for your attention.
Nagesh

20050727 Edit by ysth: code, br tags

In reply to Setting up Apache to execute .cgi file by chakkaln

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