Topic awaiting preservation: enable perl/cgi on IIS

I have IIS running on Windows 2k Advanced Server and I was wondering how to enable it to run perl/cgi scripts.

let's just say "ugh"

And then you need to go get Active perl



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"ugh", indeed.

Thanks for the link, bit, I'll try it out.

I have IIS running on my development machine, but I after that everything gets uploaded to the Unix box and the wonders of Apache. Although, I haven't found IIS to be that bad.

Yeah I had to dump IIS after I got hacked. Kinda a pain in the ass since I still use Win 2K as my regular day to day OS.



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i just say: good luck with that!
its like frontpage server extensions on unix. (though that is not sooo difficult)

Hey, bit, thanks again for that prog. It works great. About the only differences I have to watch out for when uploading are the extensions (pl versus cgi). Is there a way I can get it to execute .cgi files as well?

You should modify Windows file types, so that .cgi extension is associated with "Perl Command Line Interpreter". You can modify file types from Windows Explorer (Tools/Folder Options/File Types).

silence, if you want to run .cgi files with perl from inside IIS, you have to configure IIS for that:

1)go to internet service manager (start/programs/admin tools)
2)right-click properties on Default Web Site
3)choose "Home Directory" tab
4)click on "Configuration" button
5)navigate to "App Mapping" tab
6)click add, and specify perl's location and the extension you want to join with.

good luck,

Thanks Max and Lallous.

I already associated the extension, but I was just missing the IIS configuration change.