Could you post somewhere your .htaccess, httpd.conf (unlikely), error.log and a detailed recursive listing of your web dir?

I'd curious about the restriction to cgi-bin. What exactly is supposed to be achieved by that?

>>14

Gaaah. I keep hearing about these idiotic webservers that pretend to run CGI scripts but don't actually. Go yell at your admin to get their fucking shit together.

>>15

It's some sort of retarded historical thing. I never understood it either. I blame obsessive-compulsive control-freak sysadmins.