cgi-bin not visible to apache with virtualhosts

From: Ohmster (donteven_at_thinkaboutit.com)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 22:08:10 GMT

I also posted this to the alt.apache.configuration newsgroup but so far, no
answers. I wanted to post this question here because you networking dudes are
really smart and could probably help quite a bit with this.

I recently purchased a domain for my family and have added the DNS from
zoneedit.com. I setup my httpd.conf file to add the virtual domain as such:

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerAdmin paul@joe.com
    DocumentRoot /home/joe/public_html/family
    ServerName www.myfamily.org
    ServerAlias myfamily.org *.myfamily.org
    ErrorLog /home/joe/public_html/family/logs/host.myorg.error.log
    CustomLog /home/joe/public_html/family/logs/host.myorg.org-access_log
common
    Options ExecCGI
    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
    AddHandler cgi-script .pl
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerAdmin paul@joe.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html
    ServerName www.joe.com
    ServerAlias joe.com *.joe.com
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/access_log common

The first virtual host is the new one. The second one is the existing root
server. I have not setup the cgi stuff for the main or user dir servers
because I am trying to get this all to work now on the virtual host.
Everything worked before adding the virtual host. This works now but a
strange thing has happend. The cgi-bin directory
for the first virtual host, myfamily.org, even though it is there where it
should be, cannot be seen by apache, as in...

http://www.myfamily.org/cgi-bin/pathtest.cgi
Error 404 not found

But if I do this:
http://www.myfamily.org/~joe/cgi-bin/pathtest.cgi
it all works. WTF?!

I have user dirs enabled and have used them for several years with cgi
enabled. How come my cgi-bin directory is not visible to my virtual host?
This does not make sense. Somebody help me, please!

I want this to work normally and not have to use a /~joe/ to use cgi on this
server. 

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