Let me also add, unlike *nix, you may run scripts from virtualy any folder you see fit
on Win (within wwwroot for the web of course). Everything is really governed by the
permissions and etc... you set on the folder itself. In some cases it makes sense to
name the cgi folder something less obvious like, wordfiles, oldapps or the like. Be
creative. This way should the casual hacker break in you stand a chance of he/ she
skipping the directory. At the very least, someone is sniffing your tranfers might not
suspect your moving them into an executable dir. Just a thought.
MB'
-----Original Message-----
From: "Lynn Glessner"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "yahoo"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Begginers CGI"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun Sep 02 14:59:37 PDT 2001
Subject: Re: active perl on IIS
>I haven't had a chance to work on it recently, but I think it will turn out
>to be the .cgi extension (I'll have to go back and see who suggested that).
>I have my scripts in a directory which was created automatically called
>"scripts" a subdirecctory of c:\inetpub - IIS has it configured for
>executables. However, all my perl scripts in this directory have the
>extension .cgi. Double-clicking one of the example files installed by
>ActivePerl (those files have a .pl extension) executes fine, but my .cgi
>files have a generic icon - can't believe I didn't think to check that.
>
>I have the O'Reilly CGI book, with the rat/mouse on the cover, it is very
>helpful for CGI and Perl. I have the working version at work, it's just the
>implementation at home on IIS that I'm struggling with after doing my
>development at work. :(
>
>Thanks very much for the suggestions, I hope to be able to tackle this
>tonight (after my 2 year old goes to bed - she doesn't have much patience
>for programming yet!).
>
>> From: "yahoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:28:47 +0100
>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: RE: active perl on IIS
>>
>> Hi Gunther,
>> I think Lynn said she was looking for a book which covered IIS &
>> PerlScript - the OReilly win32 book is good for that (going hand-in-hand
>> with ActiveStates latest documentation of course!).
>>
>> I don't think IIS normally pre-creates a cgi-bin for you - none of my
>> installations have one (here is an excerpt from the IIS 5 documentation)
>> <extract>
>> To install and configure CGI applications:
>>
>> Set up a directory for your CGI programs. For extra security, you should
>> separate your CGI programs from your content files. You do not need to name
>> the directory Cgi-bin, although you can do so if you want. See Creating
>> Virtual Directories.
>> </extract>
>> As I said in my original email, you need to mark the directory as allowing
>> scripting for executables inorder to get the .pl file to run.
>>
>> I agree with what you say about the file extension; I did mention the .pl
>> extension in my original response.
>>
>>
>> Lynn, any updates on this problem?
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Joel
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gunther Birznieks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: 02 September 2001 04:00
>> To: yahoo; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: RE: active perl on IIS
>>
>>
>> Joel, I could be wrong but based on the way Lynn describes the problem, it
>> does not sound like she has a problem with Perl being installed as the
>> PerlScript examples do work as she stated. Also, she should not have to
>> create a cgi-bin. IIS has a pre-created cgi-bin typically.
>>
>> While I am a fan of OReilly, I am also not sure that Win32 Perl book from
>> OReilly will help Lynn so much because it's about Perl first and foremost,
>> CGI secondarily (not that much coverage), and I don't think it goes into
>> server configs but I could be wrong.
>>
>> Anyway, I think what Lynn is describing sounds more like a file extension
>> problem. ActiveState Perl does set up Perl for IIS if I remember correctly
>> but it does it based on FILE EXTENSION. So an important factor here is that
>> Lynn should figure out if her file extensions would run if she clicked on
>> the script in Explorer.
>>
>> I would be interested to know what file extension she is using for her
>> scripts. If her colleagues are on UNIX and writing web apps, it's highly
>> likely that they might use .cgi as an extension? But ActiveState never sets
>> up .cgi. It will set up .pl for Perl for example.
>>
>> I have a more detailed article on this topic located here:
>>
>> http://webcompare.internet.com/isapiperl/index.html
>>
>> With a page specific to providing hints for installing ActiveState Perl for
>> IIS here.
>>
>> http://webcompare.internet.com/isapiperl/isapiperl_3.html
>>
>> Good Luck,
>> Gunther
>>
>> At 08:23 PM 8/29/2001 +0100, yahoo wrote:
>>> Lynn,
>>> I've installed ActiveStates Perl a couple of times on Win 2K & NT and each
>>> time, as part of the install, it allowed/prompted for the configuration of
>>> the ISAPI part which basically meant you can run perl as an active x
>>> scripting engine. <SCRIPT LANGUAGE=perlscript> runs fine then.
>>>
>>> I seem to remember that CGI still works fine and they had some sort of
>>> speedy up extra module to make it go faster - kinda like a mod_perl for IIS
>>> I suppose - anyway, that is an aside.
>>>
>>> Ok, back to the point. Oreilly do a WIN32 Perl book - I've found it very
>>> good.
>>> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565923243/qid=999111590/sr=8-1/ref=
>> a
>>> ps_sr_b_1_1/102-3850428-7506526
>>>
>>> Have you got any test perl scripts running on your IIS box?
>>>
>>> I THINK you need to:
>>>
>>> 1) create a folder to house the cgi-bin
>>>
>>> 2) mark that folder as executable
>>>
>>> 3) put your perl (.pl) program in that. Don't think you need the shebang in
>>> win32.
>>>
>>> Can you try a simple hello world cgi program?
>>>
>>> You can always convert to an ASP PerlScript? You know, the form submits to
>>> itself and the serverside code does whatever and the send HTML back....
>>>
>>> Can you post your perl code, html, where you put them in respect to
>>> eachother on the webserver, execute permissions of the folders etc.
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>> joel
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Lynn Glessner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>> Sent: 29 August 2001 19:38
>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Subject: active perl on IIS
>>>
>>>
>>> Can anyone point me to a site or book with detailed information about
>>> configuring my W2K server IIS for perl and cgi? I have a form which I
>>> designed at work on Linux and Apache, and it works fine in that
>> environment.
>>> I want to run it on my home W2K machine, but am baffled. My coworkers are
>> no
>>> help because they all work on *nix machines.
>>>
>>> I installed activeperl and followed the configuration directions at the
>>> activeperl site but after clicking submit on my form I get "the page cannot
>>> be displayed". The active perl example pages work correctly, but they have
>>> the perl script imbedded in the html page, unlike what I want to run which
>>> is a separate html file and perl script. I'm not expecting anyone in this
>>> group to walk me through it, unless you want to :), but can you point me to
>>> a helpful source?
>>>
>>> I did change the path in the form action tag, but there is probably
>>> something else simple I am forgetting in this port from unix to windows. On
>>> apache, I check error_log, is there an equivalent log file for W2K IIS?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Lynn
>>>
>>>
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