running cgi-bin from public_html

Hi all, I would like to know under SuSE 8.0 and apache 1.3.23 how get files in say: /home/someuser/public_html/cgi-bin/something.pl to execute in a browser window, instead of having to place the cgi-bin stuff in: /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin Can someone help here? -Bill