500 Internal Server Error (417)

291 Name: MeeP : 2010-01-04 15:49 ID:b5+fPy1+ [Del]

As a favor to a friend, I'm attempting to install Wakaba on one of my servers so he can have an imageboard to play with. But alas, i seem to be having the dreaded 500's as well. I've seen several references on using CGI instead of mod_perl to run the perl scripts (that part just seems odd to me) But I've yet to find a valid solution for doing so.

The server in question uses Plesk Panel 9.2.x and has the following applicable packages installed:

CentOS 5.4 (Final)
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mysql-5.0.77-3.el5
perl-5.8.8-27.el5
ImageMagick-6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1
httpd-2.2.3-31.el5.centos.2 (apache 2 equivalent)
|_[Sub-Packages]- CGI, Fast-CGI, mod_perl, mod_rewrite etc..

I have set all *.pl files with the permissions: 755, and all directories with the permissions 777.

As noted by someone else, Plesk uses a cgi-bin that is outside of the root directory for the website.
example:
site URL: www.mysite.com
site directory: /var/www/vhost/www.mysite.com/httpdocs/
site CGI-BIN: /var/www/vhost/www.mysite.com/CGI-BIN/

My questions are as follows:

1) is it possible to run this imageboard given the hosting panels paranoia?

2) If possible, what spacificly needs to be changed in which files to allow the site to function properly.

3) How would one go about using CGI instead of Perl for perl scripts in this environment.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you for your time.

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