Forums down, my fault. I deleted cgi-bin

[4x4 Mecca]

I have restored it, but I still get a 500 server error. Any ideas?

[Dismounted]

Did you do anything else? Because cgi-bin usually contains all CGI scripts, which vBulletin does not use.

[4x4 Mecca]

I have my forums in www.mysite.com/forum and I tried moving them to www.mysite.com then changed my mind cause a few things were not working. They were working fine again in www.mysite.com/forum so I highlighted most folders in www.mysite.com's root and deleted them, then the forum went down.

[snakes1100]

Your site is spitting out a 500 internal server error, if one of the php files for vb is gone, you shouldnt get a 500 error page.

Did you make sure all the vbulletin files are there and that the permissions are set correctly on the files?

[dyna88]

Could be an issue with the htaccess file

[snakes1100]

I could agree with dyna here, is apache running as a cgi and the host possibly had something in the cgi-bin dir for your site?

As this isnt a vb issue as this is happening even in your domains root dir.

[4x4 Mecca]

I checked the .htaccess file and it's still in my domain root. Thanks guys, I'll check that again.

MY htaccess had this in it

AddHandler php-cgi .php
Action php-cgi /cgi-bin/php.cgi

I removed that and it works fine. Any idea what happened, if I need to add that, and what it does?

[Dismounted]

It runs your PHP scripts as CGI. Basically, there is two ways of running PHP for Apache. As an Apache module or as a CGI binary.