Jeff Longland wrote:

>I'm currently using Analog 3.92beta on a Windows NT IIS 4.0 remotely 
>hosted server.  I have no access to a commandline, so all of my work 
>must be done through FTP.  After a very thorough discussion about the 
>safety of placing analog.exe in one's cgi-bin, I've decided to give 
>Jeremy's NT version of the form a try.  I installed the executable into 
>my cgi-bin but was unable to use it until I placed analog.exe, its 
>configuration/language files in the cgi-bin.  I can now goto 
>http://my.server.com/cgi-bin/anlgform.exe and get my stats outputted 
>nicely to my screen.  I'm sure this still poses a security risk, or 
>does it?

Yes, it does. 

>Can someone give me explicit instructions on how to clear up these 
>potential security issues?

Your CGI directory is, for example, C:\InetPub\cgi-bin. Anlgform.(exe|pl) 
needs to be there. (Add a new Virtual Directory in MMC, and make sure it 
has Execute permissions, point it at C:\InetPub\cgi-bin)
Your form and your images also need to be in a Web directory, so they 
might be in C:\InetPub\WWWRoot\Analog, for example.

Analog itself might be in C:\Program Files\Analog. There's no way to 
launch Analog itself directly from the web, as there would be if it is 
in your cgi-bin directory. You form needs to specify a CFG file, and the 
CFG file needs to sepcify an IMAGEDIR (/Analog/images, for example) and 
a LANGFILE. LOGFILE can be specified in the form, or in CFG file.

>Jeff Longland

Aengus
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