I am running the Apache 2 webserver on my Windows XP laptop. I am able
to run PHP and MySql, but when trying to run a basic CGI script, I get
the following error:
You don't have permission to access /hello.cgi on this server.

I've read the documentation for Apache, and have changed the httpd
file (and restarted the server) with the following lines:
 ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/cgi-bin/"
and
<Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI 
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
the hello.cgi file is located in the above directory.
This is obviously not a file security issue (Windows XP, remember?),
so I'm trying to figure out what else I need to set up to allow Apache
to run this and obviously other .cgi files.

1,install perl for win32

2,Open httpd.conf file, find AddHandler, and delete # in #AddHandler
cgi-script .cgi to change it into AddHandler cgi-script .cgi