cgi-bin files do not execute

[yoshiki]

I have trouble executing files in the cgi directory. I installed apache2, accompanied with mailman and postfix, to control mailman using apache2. Though I put the following lines in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf ,

ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin"
<Directory "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/">
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>

and restarted apache2, the files in the /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin are still treated as regular files, when I visit this URL by a browser;
the browser just prints the file's contents on the browser's pain, but not executes them. As an information, I use apache-2.4.29, ubuntu-18.04, mailman-2.1.29. I'll appreciate your help.
- Yoshiki

[Nobbie]

This is Xampp Apache Forum, sorry, we dont know all Linux distributions.

Only a few ideas (i dont know nothing about your Apache configuration):

1) Is the file extension properly declared as CGI Script?
2) Is there a valid shebang line in the script? Its the first line and it should look like:

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#!/usr/bin/perl

or similar.

3) Which URL do you enter into your browser?

[nemesis]

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/cgi.html#troubleshoot
Have you checked the

File permissions

?

[yoshiki]

Thank you for your help. There were two problems,
(1) file's group permission for execution were not set. So I did
% sudo chmod g+x *
in the cg-bin directory.
(2) apache2 was not loaded with the cgi function. So I did
% cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
% sudo ln -s ../mods-avaialble/cgi.load
Then the problem was solved. Now apache2 can execute cgi-bin files.
Thank you, Yoshiki

[Nobbie]

(1) file's group permission for execution were not set. So I did
% sudo chmod g+x *
in the cg-bin directory.

Actually that should not be necessary. The file is not executed by the shell (which requires execution permission). Perhaps you have activated the so called "Xbit Hack"?!