запуск cgi-bin на Ubuntu

Всё на самом деле проще чем, может показаться на первый взгляд.
По началу все начинают ковырять apache предполагая что он не настроен на запуск сценариев.

в терминале шкрябаем:

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

вносим
# Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow
# particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as
# you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it
# below.
#

#
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#


#
# This may also be "None", "All", or any combination of "Indexes",
# "Includes", "FollowSymLinks", "ExecCGI", or "MultiViews".
#
# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
# doesn't give it to you.
#
Options Indexes Includes ExecCGI FollowSymLinks MultiViews

но достаточно сценарии поместить в /usr/lib/cgi-bin и выполнить
sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/lib/cgi-bin как всё начинает пахать на "ура".