Please forgive me for the following probably off-topic post. Truth be told, I have grown rather desperate.

Behold the very early stages of an aspiring Webmaster...

-- I'm attempting to modify a website under Microsoft's Internet Information Server 4.0.

Specifically, I'm trying to set things up so that when a particular perl script is requested, what is returned is not the script itself, but the output of that script, instead. Basic CGI, right?

I thought I had it done, but when I type the address into my browser, this error message is returned:

"CGI Timeout The specified CGI application exceeded the allowed time for processing. The server has deleted the process."

The timeout is set to 90 seconds (by right-clicking the website in IIS and going to Properties, then the "Web Site" tab.) This script simply outputs the HTML to produce a page that says "Hello World." It does NOT take more than 90 seconds to run.

I have associated the .pl extension with the full pathname to the Perl executable. (By right-clicking the subdirectory containing the script, clicking the radio button giving the directory script permission, and under the "Configuration" button, adding the .pl:<path>/Perl.exe application mapping.) The necessary libraries (Perl56.dll) are in the same directory as the executable. The script runs fine from a DOS prompt. Hell, it LOOKS like valid HTML.. Here is the output: 

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Hello World</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H4>Hello World</H4>
<P>
<P><H5>Have a nice day</H5>
</BODY>
</HTML>

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I am distressingly unfamiliar with IIS, and I can't imagine what else it wants.

Is there something obvious I'm overlooking? Am I leaving anything out? (Just ask -- _please_ ask.)

Again, I apologize that this isn't a question about coding in Perl itself, but it is about getting Perl to run.. and a solution would also go a long way toward causing another company to run Perl on its server, which is good, right?

--
Can an atheist be insured against acts of God?

In reply to I can't get Perl to run on MS-IIS! Help! by PiEquals3

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