First of all, Thank you for the quick response. I have tried many combinations of configurations. I set up mime.types with a blank extension for application/x-httpd-cgi, I have changed the servers DefaultType to be application/x-httpd-cgi instead of text. Added +ExecCGI to the directory, installed to other directories and configured correctly. but to no avail, I still only receive a binary text file of the qmailadmin cgi script. I think it has to be an apache problem. I have tried script alias, setting it's own <Directory> container. Using the current cgi-bin directory and still the same thing happens. for some reason apache will not serve it as a cgi script. I will keep trying but no luck yet, /cgi-bin/ .cgi files work because I have tested them. for some reason it just doesn't like me.
slackware 9.1, apache 1.3.29 sincerely, Adam Ossenford