Help -- IIS cgi-bin assistance

Hi Evan,

The Java scripts do not require that you have a cgi-bin directory per se -- this is just the case for web servers like Apache. IIS (which is likely what you have running on your NT/2000/2003 servers) can run CGI. This TechNet doc from Microsoft explains how to setup CGI in IIS:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/bc0c4 729-e892-4871-b8f3-fcbf489f2f09.mspx?mfr=true

Evan, we are also running a Perl script on IIS6. This is what I did to get things running:

1. Install ActivePerl. You can get it here- www.activestate.com

2. Once it's been installed, open IIS and connect to your webserver.

3. Under you server should be a folder named "Web Service Extensions". Just to be sure mark "Perl CGI Extension", "Perl ISAPI Extension", and "PerlEx ISAPI Extension" as "Allowed".

4. On your Webserver, create a folder called "cgi-bin". For security's sake, this should be outside of your "wwwroot" folder.

5. Back in IIS, right-click on your website, and select New->Virtual Directory.

6. When the wizard starts, click "next" then enter "cgi-bin" in the "alias" field. next

7. Enter the path to the "cgi-bin" folder you created in step 4. next

8. Check "Execute (such as ISAPI applications or CGI)" next, finish.

9. Now you can place the iTunesU.pl file in the folder you created in step 4, and access it at "http://www.website.edu/cgi-bin/iTunesU.pl"

NEXT

You'll need to install 2 Perl modules to run the Perl script.

1. Click Start -> Run, and type "cmd". This should open your command prompt.

2. at the command prompt type "ppm install Digest-SHA". This will update your Perl install with the hmac sha256hex algorithm you'll need.

3. at the command prompt type "ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/Crypt-SSLeay.ppd". This will install the SSLeay module you'll need.

That should get you up and running. I just went through all of this yesterday, so hopefully it'll work well for you too.

Tony

Evan,

I ran into another problem this morning. Whenever a non-admin user (As in, they are not an administrator on the webserver) tried to access the transfer script they would get the error:

"LWP will support https URLs if the Crypt::SSLeay module is installed. More information at ."

I had to go into the c:\perl\bin folder and give Everyone read/execute access on the ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll files.

It might save you a headache in the future.

Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.9) Dual Boot w/XP

Hi Tony-

I tried following your steps below and, when I browse to:
http://myintranet.lasalle.edu/cgi-bin/ITunesU.pl (accessible to anyone for now) I am seeing this error:

CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers.

Any clue what might be causing that?

Thanks,

Steve

Found it... for those using the latest .pl and the Perl software described above, you need to add a "\" (backslash) before the "@urn" on line 99 of the .pl script.

I was going back and doing this again on a new computer and I used the uwinnipeg hack just like other folks have written here. This time, I couldn't get their repo to work correctly. I dug into the specification and found that they reference the repo http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/. I added that to my ppm repos and installed the Crypt-SSLeay lib from there. Hope this saves someone some time.