Debian, Apache, plus CGI execute problem

[Ben Pfaff]

Nick Lewis <lewis@cscw.msu.edu> writes:

> [Sun Oct 15 22:20:22 2000] [error] (8)Exec format error: exec of
> /home/www/mail/test.php3 failed

Apache is trying to execute the PHP3 file in the same way that it
would a CGI script, essentially as if "/home/www/mail/test.php3"
were typed at the shell command prompt, and this operation is
failing.  Is this what it should be doing?  If not, do you have
the PHP module properly configured?