Pointing ItunesU.class to a cgi-bin directory.

Our school is setting up an ITuneU page and we have successfully compiled the ITunesU.class file but for some reason our web server does not have a cgi-bin directory to put these files into. Can we put the Java files into a different directory or is cgi-bin required?

Our Itunes university is up and running.

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Now I am having trouble getting CGI to work in the user directories. I have a perl script that works for 127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/test.cgi, but not for 127.0.0.1/~joe/cgi-bin/test.cgi.
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Farther down, there's this, which I added ExecCGI and index.cgi:
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