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

Hi
I am trying to call the Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application') in my cgi application which is running in win 2003 server, but it throws the below mentioned error.
"Win32::OLE(0.1403) error 0x80070005: Access is denied"
My Application, Perl files and the Microsoft Excel is running in the same root directiory i.e.
D:/Applications/My Application/
D:/Applications/Perl/
D:/Applications/Microsoft Office/Office/Excel.Exe
Is there any configuration settings I have to take care or please let anyone can help me to handle the above error
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Re: Win32::OLE(0.1403) error 0x80070005: "Access is denied"
by puploki (Hermit) on Nov 03, 2005 at 09:04 UTC

    If you run your Perl script from the command line, does it run ok? i.e. is it just that it doesn't work when called through a browser?

    If that's the case, then it's likely to be permissions related, e.g. check that the IUSR_machinename account has execute permissions and that it has write access to any temporary files you use. You may also want to check that in IIS, you have enabled scripts + executables permissions on your website / virtual directories.

    A quick super search showed up a similar case from not so long ago: win32::ole runs under cmd line but not cgi, perhaps some of the hints there may help?

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      Thanks puploki

      As you said my script is not running properly in commnad line, but where as I am running my application in Apache not in IIS , so Explain me briefly how to handle this

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        In the node I mentioned in my first post, I think that's Apache not IIS - did you take a look at it?

        I assume the same comments apply - check that the user Apache runs as has all the relevant permissions. I'm also not quite clear from your reply whether running your script outside of Apache works or not - if it doesn't then I'd say you need to fix that before addressing any problems with running it via CGI.

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