Vivek, thanks for the great trouble shooting pointers. As for the apache server settings, I'm still struggling. Here's what the original looks like:
<Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/cgi-
+bin">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
I also tried a number of modifications:
<Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/cgi-
+bin">
Options ExecCGI
SetHandler cgi-script
</Directory>
Another:
<Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/cgi-
+bin">
AllowOverride None
Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Includes ExecCGI
</Directory>
I also did a few more iterations of these, but no to no avail. I should also note that I think the conf files for the different apache versions are quite a bit differnt. For example my file doesn't have the <virtualhost *> command. Any ideas, would be much appreciated.