[Xitami] How do I make files executable in Xitami?

[J. Hodges]

Hi. =)  Silly newbie questions..  My webservice provide just installed php and mySQL on his Xitami server. I 
have two scripts that I want to run. 

One is a content managent system and the other is an image indexing program called gallery.  Both programmes 
will run in both UNIX and Windows.  I'm only familliar with UNIX servers and "chmod"ing files to make them 
executable.

I get this error message:  "Bad request: probably tried to POST a non-executable URL"  I did a little digging 
in to the lists archives and I've found reference to perl scripts being executable from the cgi-bin directory.  
So, I made a cgi-bin and uploaded the files there.. I use the same path as the ftp, but I get this message: 
"The URL you asked for does not exist on this website."  I suppose I need to be given access to the cgi-bin?   
Well I suppose my question would be: are php scripts executable from the cgi-bin? 
 
I downloaded Xitami and installed it on my computer and have been trying to get php installed--but it's not 
working.  

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