trouble getting started

[Andy Bernat]

Dear Mapserver experts,
I have been unable to get mapserver up and running.  After successfully
compiling (version 3.3.011), I copied the mapserv executable to
/usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin and changed the reference in the demo_init.html
(from the mapserv demo) to point there. When I hit the initialize button
all I get is a screen
of gibberish like the following: 
----- snip -------------
ELFx.so.28:4v41I?rR_New_Instanceet_CharMap_CountTIFFReadEncodedStripsigsetjmptcèT7}`ÿÿÿÿ%8
hH`þÿÿÿ%x
hÈ`ýÿÿÿ%¸
hH`üÿÿÿ%ø
hÈ`ûÿÿÿ%8
hH`úÿÿÿ%x
hÈ`ùÿÿÿ%¸
hH`øÿÿÿ%ø
hÈU?åh -h
----- snip -------------
I'm running SuSE 7.0, Apache 1.3.12.  I suspected that maybe apache
doesn't recognize  mapserv as an executable so I changed what looked
like the right option in http.conf to treat everything in the cgi-bin
subdirectory as executable but that didn't work.  At least that's what I
thought I was doing but I'm very much the novice.  Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Andy Bernat

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