I struggled last night into the wee hours of the morning scratching my head and yanking out my hair trying to figure out why I kept getting those awful 403 forbidden error pages when all I was trying to do was run a simple CGI-script.
That's when all of a sudden I realized that I had forgotten that all import asterisk, meaning that the correct apache directive should be:
<Directory /var/www/*>
Options +ExecCGI
</Directory>
Let's be more careful the next time, alright?!