cant enable cgi

Hi,
I've got Mandrake 9.2 installed and apache 2
Server Version: Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.28 (Mandrake
Linux/3mdk) mod_perl/1.28
Server Built: Sep 15 2003 07:33:36

I've got a line in my html file:
<!--#exec cgi="cgi-bin/counter.cgi" -->

This works under my other system with apache 1.3.27
But on my new system nothing happens, no errors in the logs, no nothing, its
as if its ignoring the call to counter.cgi

In commonhttpd.conf I have
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
<Directory /var/www/cgi-bin>
AllowOverride All
Options ExecCGI Includes
<IfModule mod_access.c>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</IfModule>
</Directory>

<IfModule mod_include.c>
XBitHack on
</IfModule>

also The file with the reference to counter.cgi is r-xr-xr-x

What am i missing?
Thanks
Eric