brock@uncacsci-pi-j:~$ id
uid=1002(brock) gid=4(adm) groups=4(adm),33(www-data),997(gpio),998(i2c)
brock@uncacsci-pi-j:~$ cd /var/www/html
brock@uncacsci-pi-j:/var/www/html$ ls -ld .
drwxrwxr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 13 10:34 .
brock@uncacsci-pi-j:/var/www/html$ echo "hello world" > jdb.txt
brock@uncacsci-pi-j:/var/www/html$ echo http://uncacsci-pi-j/jdb.txt works
http://uncacsci-pi-j/jdb.txt works
brock@uncacsci-pi-j:/var/www/html$ diff /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf /home/brock/lighttpd.conf-orig 
3d2
< 	"mod_cgi",
25,32d23
< 
< $HTTP["url"] =~ "/cgi-bin/" {
<         cgi.assign = ( "" => "" )
< }
< 
< cgi.assign      = (
<         ".cgi"  => ""
< )
brock@uncacsci-pi-j:/var/www/html$ sudo service lighttpd restart
brock@uncacsci-pi-j:/var/www/html$ echo http://uncacsci-pi-j/foo.cgi works
http://uncacsci-pi-j/foo.cgi works