CGI script showing as plain text

I have done the following checks:

• shebang line
• file extension .cgi
• script is executable
• restarted apache

I've done the following in my project.conf file on Vagrant under /sites-enabled:

<Directory /var/www/perl_project/cgi-bin>
      Options ExecCGI
      SetHandler cgi-script
</Directory>

I'm pointing to http://project.local/cgi-bin/routes.cgi?page=reports in my links, but they bring up the text of the script and don't run them...

The script isn't displaying any HTML, it is a kind of router where I get query string and based on that load a template toolkit file

could someone please help?

I placed my cgi scripts under /usr/lib/cgi-bin

After installing the mod_cgi module I noticed a /cgi-bin directory was created under /vagrant, but that didn't work for some reason so I hunted down the former cgi-bin directory.

Hope this helps someone