Picture problems

I'm having some problems getting the pictures to display properly. PHP is installed as a CGI and below is the structure of my directories in Linux.

           wid
            |
      public_html 
        /     \
    cgi-bin   pics
                \
              background.gif

Now, I have a file in public_html that wants to use the background.gif and i've tried all the following unsuccessfully:

Anyone else know how I can get this stuff to work. I directly typed in the address and added background.gif at the end and it shows just fine.

Can some help me out?

Thanks,
Mike

Something got screwed up with the picture I provided when I submitted this question.

background.gif is supposed to be under pics NOT cgi-bin

Thanks,
Mike