Configuring IIS for CGI::Application

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks,

I've recently started using CGI::Application and been very impressed. I'm now trying to move it to a Windows server (XP Pro SP2, IIS 6) and having a problem. In CGI::Application, you can define the run_mode like this:

$self->mode_param( path_info=> 1 );

This works great on Apache on my Mac, allowing me to have URLs like this:

http://localhost/cgi-bin/app_name.cgi/run_mode_name?params=values

that execute the app_name.cgi script with the the correct run_mode and the params.

When I try to do the same thing on the Windows machine, I get a 404 error...IIS isn't recognizing that app_name.cgi should be called, instead trying to execute 'run_mode_name' in the 'app_name.cgi' directory (which obviously doesn't exist. I know this is slightly off topic for this website, but does anyone here know if/how you can change the IIS settings to make this work? Or even a better way of describing the problem? I'm having trouble locating help.

Thanks so much

Andrew

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Re: Configuring IIS for CGI::Application by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Aug 11, 2005 at 16:35 UTC
The `PATH_INFO` is disabled by default for Script mapped thing on IIS - you can turn it on by running: `adsutil.vbs set w3svc/AllowPathInfoForScriptMappings TRUE` [download] `adsutil.vbs` will be found in \inetpub\adminscripts or somewhere under %WINDIR%\system32\inetsrv depending on your setup. /J\	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Configuring IIS for CGI::Application by Anonymous Monk on Aug 11, 2005 at 17:21 UTC
That doesn't seem to work for my setup...after making that change URLs like this: `http://localhost/cgi-bin/app_name.cgi/run_mode_name?params=values` Still give me 404 errors. Although, with the change, this address works: `http://localhost/cgi-bin/app_name.cgi/?params=values` while before only this worked. `http://localhost/cgi-bin/app_name.cgi?params=values` Is there a name for how I'm parsing the URL here? Also, and potentially of note, I know that on Apache mediawiki software allows you to create urls like `http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl or http://localhost/wiki.php/Perl` But on their installation page, it says this isn't possible on IIS. Is this the case for perl too? If so, then its not true CGI::Application can "run equally well on NT/IIS or any other CGI-compatible environment."	[reply] [d/l] [select]