May CGI not work if httpd.conf, cgi file and its permissions are correct?

Did you installed php-cgi or/and perl-cgi?

Did you enabled cgi on httpd.conf?

Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

Good luck!

ServerRoot "/usr/local/apache2"
Listen 80
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
<IfModule !mpm_netware_module>
<IfModule !mpm_winnt_module>
User daemon
Group daemon
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
ServerAdmin you@example.com
DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs"
    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>
<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
    Satisfy All
</FilesMatch>
ErrorLog "logs/error_log"
LogLevel warn
<IfModule log_config_module>
    LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
    LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
    <IfModule logio_module>
      LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %I %O" combinedio
    </IfModule>
    CustomLog "logs/access_log" common
</IfModule>
<IfModule alias_module>
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/"
</IfModule>
<IfModule cgid_module>
</IfModule>
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
<Directory "/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride All
    Options ExecCGI
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
DefaultType text/plain
<IfModule mime_module>
    TypesConfig conf/mime.types
    AddType application/x-compress .Z
    AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
</IfModule>
<IfModule ssl_module>
SSLRandomSeed startup builtin
SSLRandomSeed connect builtin
</IfModule>

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You need to choose between cgid module and cgi module, both cannot coexist.

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