Is anyone experienced at enabling CGI using XAMPP for Mac OS X? I would like to use perl to execute scripts from cgi-bin/. After having read the on-line manuals, asked around, and read the on-line manuals again, the server is still giving me:

Error 403 Access forbidden! You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.

Which obviously tells me this is a permissions issue.

I believe my permissions are correct:

In cgi-bin/

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 43 Jan 28 07:06 form_query.pl

In the error_log:

in error_log: Options ExecCGI is off in this directory/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/cgi-bin/form_query.pl

So, I go to httpd.conf to turn ExecCGI on:

Lines from httpd.conf file:

ScriptAliasMatch ^/cgi-bin/((?!(?i:webobjects)).*$) "/Library/WebServe
+r/CGI-Executables/$1"

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(That looks funny, btw, but I have not changed it...

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
# "/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables" should be changed to whatever y
+our ScriptAliased
# CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
#
<Directory "/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables">
    AllowOverride None
    Options ExecCGI
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
 </Directory>

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That did not work, so I tried enabling CGI in the directory that my cgi executable files are in: 

<Directory "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/cgi-bin/">
    AllowOverride None
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

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But still the 403 error persists

Could the problem be here? When calling ls -l in the XAMPP directory: 

drwxr-xr-x   3 user  admin  102 Aug 16 07:35 XAMPP Control.app
lrwxr-xr-x   1 user  admin   18 Sep 27 09:49 cgi-bin -> xamppfiles/cgi
+-bin
lrwxr-xr-x@  1 user  admin   14 Sep 27 09:49 etc -> xamppfiles/etc
lrwxr-xr-x   1 user  admin   17 Sep 27 09:49 htdocs -> xamppfiles/htdo
+cs
lrwxr-xr-x@  1 user  admin   15 Sep 27 09:49 logs -> xamppfiles/logs
drwxr-xr-x@ 23 root              admin  782 Aug 16 07:36 xamppfiles

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Is there a problem with the Symlinks? Any help would be very much appreciated.

I am running Mac OS X 10.5.7, with XAMPP for Mac OS X (Apache 2.0, Perl5, mod_perl 2.0.4)

Thank you!

In reply to Enabling CGI using XAMPP for Mac OS X by Shuraski

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