I followed the english instructions of http://mujblog.info/gransy17/software/apache--eruby since it seemed recent. I do have an eruby in /usr/bin, which I did not have before I changed /private/etc/httpd.conf adding the two lines AddType application/x-httpd-eruby .rhtml Action application/x-httpd-eruby /cgi-bin/eruby that seems the same as in the ruby book I also added index.rhtml to the directory list. I put the test file in /library/webserver/CGI-Executables/basic and test it with http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/basic/erubytest.rhtml it seems to find the file, but gives me an error in error.log [Mon Apr 24 21:17:16 2006] [error] (8)Exec format error: exec of /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/basic/erubytest.rhtml failed this is what I am trying to test with, in erubytest.rhtml with chmod 755 on the file <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <html> <body> <h1>eruby test</h1> <p> current time: <%= Time.now %> </p> </body> </html> from http://svn.modruby.net/repos/eruby/trunk/examples/test.rhtml I took out the reference to foo, and cut it a bit shorter. I have a ruby cgi file which works from that directory any suggestions? Anne G.