[Web4lib] Help with IIS/Windows 2003 and Perl configuration

[Don Hamilton]

Thank you web4lib, and especially the three quick responses I got. I'm
not sure if it was the missing IWAM user, or the fact that I hadn't
rebooted after the Perl install (to add it to the path!) but all is
well. 
 
Thanks again.
 
don

>>> "A. Bullen" <abullen at ameritech.net> 6/1/2005 2:35:59 PM >>>

Don,

Have you added (I am sorry if this is a dumb question) the site into
the 
IIS control panel (I put all of mine into a cgi-bin subdirectory)? Are

you sure the permissions on the site are scripts and executables 
enabled? Are you sure the user IWAM and IUSR have read access to the 
script? If you bring up a command window, can you manually get the Perl

program to run by simply typing the name of the Perl program at the c:\

prompt?

Andy Bullen
Illinois State Library

Don Hamilton wrote:

>Hi all. This is a call of desperation. Those of you who know me will
>appreciate the humor when I say that I've been tearing my hair out
over
>this for a week now.
> 
>Anyway, I have installed windows 2003 and IIs6, and all the latest
>patches. I have installed the latest Activestate Perl. I have enable
web
>site extensions, set mime types, followed different sets of
>instructions, browsed MS and AS sites 'til I'm blue in the face (and
>bald!) and I STILL can't get a stinkin' "Hello World" to run... All I
>get is that stupid old 404 (.2, I think) "The page cannot be found".
>(/endrant. I feel better already).
> 
>The ActiveState site does not specifically mention Windows 2003 (that
I
>could see). Is that combination known to work?  Does anyone have an
>idiot's guide to making it work? Please?
> 
>Thanks
> 
>don
> 
> 
> 
>Don Hamilton, Systems by Training, Cybrarian by Osmosis
>Library Information Technologies
>Wilfrid Laurier University Library
>75 University Ave W
>Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5
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