How to run CGI-C in Mac?

What must I do to run CGI-C scripts in Mac?
We were required in class to use CGI for the server-side processing of HTML. And we use the C programming language.
Anyway, so what I did was that I made an HTML file in Documents with form action='/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/sample3.cgi', made a C file and compiled it in CGI (sample3.cgi). I saved this in /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables but when I ran the HTML file and clicked some buttons, it opened the folder instead and did not execute the CGI file. My professor said something about setting up a web server first, but he didn't exactly tell me how, why and how it was going to help with anything. Can anyone tell me the best thing that I should do in step-by-step? Or if there was something wrong with the directories I used? Thaank you.
For additional info, I use 2013 MacBook Air, the gcc compiler for C and Xcode as my editor.

Sorry been away for a few days.
If the local web server is running you should be able to access the cgi files by referencing them in your HTML document as
/cgi-bin/program_name
I know the folder is CGI-Executables but the httpd.conf file aliases that to cgi-bin so that is the name you use in the HTML code. Try that and see if it works.
Here is a simple perl cgi script
#! /usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html><body><h1>Hello World!";
print "</h1></body></html>\n";
Save that to CGI-Executables as test.pl chmod it to 755.
With the above installed you should be ale to open a web browser and enter
http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.pl
and the script should run.
Here is a simple html document to test it also
<html><body><h1>It WORKS! in sites</h1>
<FORM ACTION="/cgi-bin/test.pl"
METHOD="GET">
<DIV>Your input:<BR>
<INPUT NAME="data" SIZE="60" MAXLENGTH="80"><BR>
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Send"></DIV>
</FORM>
</body></html>
When you press the submit button the cgi program will run.
As I wrote its been a while since I used CGI (most of this has been replaced by php) and I can;t remember if there needs to be any changes to the https.conf if that doesn't work post back and we'll see if the conf file needs to be modified.
regards

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