[thelist] Configuring Perl on NT/IIS4.0

Got a suggestion from the MJ list to use ActiveStatePerl,
www.activestate.com, worked like a charm. 6 meg DL and just click through
and it takes care O' bidniz....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin@lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin@lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Dwayne Holmberg
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 1:40 PM
> To: thelist@lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Configuring Perl on NT/IIS4.0
>
>
> At 12:15 PM 1/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >As usual M$ help section isn't all that helpful, could only find
> >instructions for IIS1-3. Anyone got the lowdown on the registry
> settings to
> >make it go.
>
> What kind of problems are you having? You shouldn't have to mess with the
> registry directly, I don't think.
>
> The best place to look for help on this is the perl documentation (and I
> don't mean RTFM, it just explains it much better than I would). Especially
> see perlwin32faq6 - it's got a section specifically on configuring perl
> with IIS4. Steps 8 and 9 seem to be the most commonly missed, to whit:
>
> 8. Select the App Mappings tab and click the Add button. You see the
> Add/Edit Application Extension Mapping dialog.
>
> 9. To run Perl as a CGI application, type the full path to Perl.EXE
> followed by %s %s. When a script is executed, the first %s will
> be replaced
> by the full path to the script, and the second %s will be replaced by the
> script parameters.
>
>
> > Sheesh I feel like a Paclead(SP?) "We need help to make it go"
>
> Bonus points for quoting the _most_ irritating Star Trek race. heh.
>
> hth
>
> - dwayne
>
>
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