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[Deskin, Bob]

My experience is with Personal Web Server which is a subset of IIS.
Typically you have to alias the cgi-bin virtual directory to the actual
directory. I know it sounds redundant but this worked for me. So basically
you set the path to the physical cgi-bin folder. Then make sure the
appropriate permissions are there - read, execute, and script (if I recall
correctly). If this doesn't work, let me know and we'll check with our QC
group who have IIS running.

Bob Deskin              
PowerHouse Web Product Manager and Senior Product Advisor
Application Development Tools, Cognos Inc.
bob.deskin@cognos.com
(613) 738-1338 ext 4205  FAX: (613) 228-3149
3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA


-----Original Message-----
From: David Followes [mailto:david.followes@ceo.woll.catholic.edu.au]
Sent: December 22, 1999 4:55 PM
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: 


We are trying to get PowerHouse Web on NT to work with Internet Information
Server.

We have built a simple screen similar to the one described in chapter 2 (A
guided tour of PowerHouse Web,  Building a Simple PowerHouse 4gl
Application) in the PowerHouse Web Guide.  We built the home page as
described on page 36.

After setting everything up according to the manual, we get the error
message when selecting the menu item on the home page.

"This CGI is out of service"

The home page and the html built from our simple screen contain lines like
the following:

<form ... action="/cgi-bin/phcgi.exe" ....

This seems to be a problem as in IIS there seems to be a virtual folder
called cgi-bin which doesn't seem to work properly.

If we edit the two pieces of html involved and change the line above to

<form ... action="/phcgi-bin/phcgi.exe" ....

And then in IIS create a virtual folder called phcgi-bin which points its
local path to the same directory as cgi-bin the simple example works fine.

I thought of deleting the cgi-bin virtual folder, but there is no way to do
it!


We contacted Cognos in Sydney and after several days of back and forth were
told IIS is Microsoft's product log a call with them.

Has anyone experienced similar problems or know how to fix it?  We don't
what to manually change the cgi-bin to phcgi-bin every time we recompile a
program.




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