>What am I missing (this time)?
Have you told the webserver it is executable, using the Internet Service
Manager console?
Colin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 15 February 2001 02:58
> To: Grant McLean; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Outta my tree!
>
> Thanks. That's what I've decided must be the case.
>
> I have removed ActivePerl and PWS and then reinstalled - first PWS then
> ActivePerl Build 623. Then I recreated the registry entry at
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3SVC\Parameters\Scri
> pt
> Map\.pl, "C:\Perl\Bin\Perl.exe %s %s" (I wonder why they don't make that
> entry during install).
>
> Now I get a more familiar error:
>
> "HTTP Error 403
> 403.1 Forbidden: Execute Access Forbidden
>
> This error can be caused if you try to execute a CGI, ISAPI, or other
> executable program from a directory that does not allow programs to be
> executed."
>
> However, the directory that my script is in is marked Executable, as is
> the
> directory that perl.exe is in!
>
> What am I missing (this time)?
>
> TIA
>
> Lane
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grant McLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 1:43 PM
> Subject: RE: Outta my tree!
>
>
> > It sounds like your web server is starting perl.exe but is not
> > passing the name of the script on the command line. This means
> > when perl runs it expects to read the script from standard input
> > and will keep waiting/reading until end of file.
> >
> > The registry key which maps .pl to perl.exe should look something
> > like this:
> >
> > C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "%s" "%s"
> >
> > Good luck
> > Grant
> >
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> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 4:59 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Outta my tree!
> > >
> > >
> > > I have just installed ActiveState Perl on a Windows98 box running PWS.
> > >
> > > Each time I invoke a perl script from a web browser the
> > > script times out
> > > UNLESS I use CTRL+ALT+DEL. When I do that I see an instance
> > > of PERL running
> > > in the task manager. When I end that task the script returns
> > > the following
> > > error:
> > >
> > > CGI Error
> > > The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a
> > > complete set of
> > > HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:
> > >
> > > I believe that the issue has to do with the registry edit required by
> > > http://localhost/perl/faq/Windows/ActivePerl-Winfaq6.html#How_
> > do_I_configure
> > _IIS_3_0_or_lo . How should that registry key look? Or am I barking up
> > the
> > wrong tree?
> >
> > Thanks for your help
> >
> > lane
> >
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