Firstly, we don't know that there's an ISP involved at all. This sounds like a standard Apache installation which could be on the original poster's own Linux server (for example). The default Apache installation doesn't use suexec. So why complicate things unnecessarily.

Secondly, the problem (and the solution) had absolutely nothing to do with programs or permissions. It was simply that the original poster had a static HTML file in his cgi-bin directory.

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In reply to Re^3: exec format error with CGI program by davorg
in thread exec format error with CGI program by lax

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