search interface fails under ~NAME style domain

[Thunderstone]

Successfully installed BSDI Free Webinator on website called
"http://www.korax.net/~monty" where webpages live on public_html
subdirectory with texis living on cgi-bin subdirectory.

Default database sucessfully created; initial walk succeeded; initial
database successfully wiped, and next database successfully compiled and
indexed.

Search interface will not present, however, even though I tried every path I
could think of for the anchor tag used in */webinator/index.html document.

Server presents following error message:
File Not Found
The requested URL /~monty/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/search/ was not
found on this server.

ISP uses Apache servers running FreeBSD but concerned that
"/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/search/" is path to non-existent directories.
(This point addressed in earlier response, but ISP seeks clarification.)

Search page _does_ present on "http://www.opinion-pages.org" (where default
database creation failed due to failed nslookup command per previous message).

Why will search page present on TLD website, but will not present on ~NAME
website?

[Thunderstone]

You have to be able to RUN cgi programs, not just install them. This
requires web server configuration. The directory used for such is
usually called something like "cgi-bin", but just making up a directory
called cgi-bin in your home dir does not necessarily mean that you can
run cgi's from it. Ask your ISP where you have to put cgi programs to RUN
them. Then try a url like:
http://THEHOST/THEDIRECTORY/texis
or:
http://THEHOST/~monty/THEDIRECTORY/texis

If you have cgi configured for THEDIRECTORY on THEHOST you will get
back a thunderstone copyright message.

Once that works, then use something like:
http://THEHOST/THEDIRECTORY/texis/webinator/search
or:
http://THEHOST/~monty/THEDIRECTORY/texi ... tor/search
to run the search script.