Running PHP file outside of documentroot (cgi-bin folder)

Question

I am working with a colleague to set up their local environment on a MAC in XAMPP, on windows my vhost looks like the one below.

When I access a URL like http://domain.l

Answer 1

I think you need a section for your cgi-bin.

The fact that your server can show you the script sources means the server has at least read permissions on /file/system/path/to/cgi-bin and IIRC that clashes with ScriptAlias b/c ScriptAlias expects /file/system/path/to/cgi-bin to be unaccessible for security reasons. I think your solution should look something along the lines of:

    Options ExecCGI
    SetHandler cgi-script