This may not be the most suitable place for this question, but I asked in the CB and no one said they minded..

I just installed the IIS server today on XP (don't comment on Windows, commenting on something other than the question or topic at hand is just a waste!) and I can get HTML and ASP files to work. I went to test a CGI but instead of executing, it pretends it's a text file instead.

If I have perl setup on my system, do I need to install it again for the server? Does anyone have any ideas what I need to do to get them to work properly?

One other thing.. I'm not running it specifically from a cgi-bin folder, but I'm thinking that has nothing to do with it. Thanks everyone.



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sulfericacid

In reply to CGI as text on IIS by sulfericacid

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