index.html page shows up everytime no matter what i do?

Hi,

I am very new to CGI Perl and Apache. I want to run a script present in
cgi-bin directory but the browser is opening up the index.html page
present in /var/www/html directory.

My DocumentRoot is pointing to /var/www/html
My cgi-bin is in /var/www/cgi-bin

I have written an index.html and its in /var/www/html. If i remove
index.html and execute http://localhost/cgi-bin/hello.cgi the browser
will show up "TestPage" and the logs directory has this error:

[Wed Oct 19 10:14:27 2005] [error] [client 10.1.100.170] Directory
index forbidden by rule: /var/www/html/

If i include index.html then i dont get any error but the browser
outputs the index.html result.

I dont know what changes my httpd.conf file requires. I am stuck at
this from past 2 days, please help me.

Regards
Shilpa