I'm on NT 4.0 and Win2K, both with IIS4, and I've configured CGI
for both of those machines. The setup was similar on both machines.
There are server setup guidelines you have to follow
to allow the server to execute CGI scripts and return stdout
to the client. You may have permission issues, but it sounds
like you still have some configuration steps to do.
Here's a good place to start.
http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/iis/tips/runcgi.asp
Read the whole document and see what you may have left out.
HTH,
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Sjobeck
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Sent: 11/20/00 2:08 PM
Subject: newbie: cant run *.pl, "page cannot be found" error
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Dear All,
Thanks very much in advance for any assistance I am given.
This is my first post, this is my first time trying to run a Perl
script.
I am on a Windows 2000 Server (SP1), running IIS5, have installed
ActivePerl (build 620), have my "stats.pl" file in my "cgi-bin"
directory, the script runs fine from a CMD prompt, but when I browse to
the URL, I get "page cannot be found". I do not understand how the
webserver can be saying this since I know it exists. I believe that the
ActivePerl installation was perfectly successful, I double-checked that
"*.pl" was associated with "perl.exe" and that "*.plx" with PerIIS.exe"
and they are. I'm not trying "*.plx" right now though, since I have read
that that is more complicated. I guess I'd do it later if I thought I
could pull it off since it is supposed to be faster. I do not know if I
ought to simply go right to "*.plx" or not right now. My hunch tells me
to stick to "*.pl" since I'm so new at this. I also believe that I have
the cgi-bin directory correctly set to allow scripts and executables.
Can any one point me in the correct direction on this one.
Thanks so much.
Please reply to both me and the group.
Thanks.
Jason
