My site hosted on a Linux server. I am trying to install a profile manager with register, login and send message options and it fails. It says (the auto-installer) that I must have a cgi-bin directory in my home directory but I don't have it! There is just no such directory in my control panel! What am I doing wrong? Is there a way to set up this feature in Linux based server at all?
Sounds like maybe you just need to create a cgi-bin directory in your public_html or home(wherever your site files are) directory? What script are you trying to install?
Is it a PHP script ? If there is no cgi-bin directory, you can create one and assign chmod 755 to it.
Listen to lotsoffish. Make a cgi-bin at the root level and possibly one at public_html. Make sure you have 755 permissions.