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January 26th, 2004, 03:31 AM

Aquanaut

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SSI on IIS problems

I'm running several sites with much the same content and I want to run this script to place common things in each site according to the URL of the website, I was getting the Win32 error cant execute.

It seemed not to like the './'cgi-bin/blah blah in the path.

But now its seems to find the script but doesn't do anything with it - no output.

I have enabled the SSICmd bit in the registry which MS suggest and set permissions on the site to execute scripts.

I have spent hours going over Microsoft Links and others that I found - You sorta get to the stage where it all glazes over - Dohhhhh.

perl scripts execute on IIS, when called directly but not when called from the html, shich has a .shtml suffix.

If I do the include command, it does put all the script code in the html output

I have set the folders in the server to enable script execution.. I can't think of much else to do

Active Perl 5.8 - Win2K Server SP4+, IIS5+

-----------------------shtml file----------
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
Perl call - test page.
now 

after
 
</body>
</html>

--------------------Perl script-------------
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
#

$siteurl = "$ENV{'HTTP_HOST'}";

print "Hello World! $siteurl";
print " ";

Pretty simple - yet????????????

And it all works on a commercial linux webserver - why not IIS?

Any thoughts appreciated.

Regards
Jerry

January 26th, 2004, 11:17 AM

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Re: SSI on IIS problems

Quote:

Originally posted by Aquanaut
I'm running several sites with much the same content and I want to run this script to place common things in each site according to the URL of the website, I was getting the Win32 error cant execute.

It seemed not to like the './'cgi-bin/blah blah in the path.

But now its seems to find the script but doesn't do anything with it - no output.

I have enabled the SSICmd bit in the registry which MS suggest and set permissions on the site to execute scripts.

I have spent hours going over Microsoft Links and others that I found - You sorta get to the stage where it all glazes over - Dohhhhh.

perl scripts execute on IIS, when called directly but not when called from the html, shich has a .shtml suffix.

If I do the include command, it does put all the script code in the html output

I have set the folders in the server to enable script execution.. I can't think of much else to do

Active Perl 5.8 - Win2K Server SP4+, IIS5+

-----------------------shtml file----------
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
Perl call - test page.
now 

after
 
</body>
</html>

--------------------Perl script-------------
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
#

$siteurl = "$ENV{'HTTP_HOST'}";

print "Hello World! $siteurl";
print " ";

Pretty simple - yet????????????

And it all works on a commercial linux webserver - why not IIS?

Any thoughts appreciated.

Regards
Jerry

Ok - sorted, I think
Microsoft Knowledge Base Articale 318176 (eeeeeek!)

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

has to be returned to the IIS by the exec'd script/program for the output to be printed....

Sheesh - talk about hiding stuff in the depths.....

Together with an absolute path from root in the html script made it work.

--------------------------perl---------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
#
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

$siteurl = "$ENV{'HTTP_HOST'}";

print "Hello World! - My url: $siteurl";
print " ";

------------------------shtml----------------------------------
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
Perl call - test page.
now 

after
  
</body>
</html>
------------------------------------------------------------------

Amazing what you can find on the web when you look long enough ......

Many Thanks
Jerry

January 26th, 2004, 01:54 PM

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January 26th, 2004, 05:57 PM

Aquanaut

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Ummm - not quite - file paths??

Some of the webs are on a Linux server and lots are on a Windows IIS server.

To call the perl script on the Linux system I have to use



or



and

 Will not work.

On the windows IIS I "have" to call the perl script with



a relative path within the website will not work.

Any ideas how I get this down to one single path definition?

Ideas appreciated

Regards
Jerry

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