I'm trying to make a website on my school's server, but they have PHP installed as CGI, so .php files can only run in the cgi-bin folder.
This is somewhat problematic if I want my index to be a .php file and not a .html, since it needs to be outside of the cgi-bin folder and in the root WWW folder.
Furthermore, it's an apache server, so I tried editing my .htaccess file only to realize i don't know where the php-cgi binary is (this is my school's server, after all, and I don't have permissions just to explore).
Is there any other way of getting the .php index file which is outside of the cgi-bin folder to work without having to do something ugly like make an index.html file in the root directory which redirects to a .php file within the cgi-bin folder?