"Mike Garner" <mgarner@western.edu> wrote in message
news:061101c3555a$d95cc8a0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I've been tasked with the job of migrating an iPlanet Web
> Server to IIS 6.0. I wrote nearly all of the CGI on the
> server so I've got a pretty good handle on what its
> trying to do. There are several scripts that provide web-
> based utilities, to read directories, set permissions,
> etc. within the wwwroot. For example, the script will
> get a directory listing of all the subdirs in a given
> directory and print those back to the browser. When this
> CGI script (written in PERL) runs on the IIS 6.0 machine,
> none of the directories get printed. The same script
> executed locally on the server via command line works
> fine. Other functions of CGI seem to work ok,
> interfacing with a MySQL database, formmailers, etc. But
> when a script needs to create a file on the server, or in
> similar filesystem/operating system interactions, this
> external process doesn't take place. What do I need to
> allow for this to work? On the cgi-bin virtual directory
> I've permitted all the checkboxes, but that didn't seem
> to help: Script Source Access, Read, Write, Directory
> Browsing, Log visits, Index this resouce.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mike

"Mike Garner" <mgarner@western.edu> wrote in message
news:383201c35583$9e1ccc30$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Everything looks normal. I'm not terribly familiar with
> the IIS interface so I haven't looked at the logs (not
> really sure where to find those yet). I'll dig around a
> bit but for the most part the HTML output is as expected
> except the parts that are missing that should be command
> line output trapped by Perl variables. In those cases,
> the variables are null so its as if the system calls
> weren't executed at all..
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Is there any error msgs ?
> >what's the http status reply for that request in IIS
> log ?
> >
> >--
> >Regards,
> >Bernard Cheah
> >http://support.microsoft.com/
> >Please respond to newsgroups only ...
> >
> >
> >"Mike Garner" <mgarner@western.edu> wrote in message
> >news:061101c3555a$d95cc8a0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I've been tasked with the job of migrating an iPlanet
> Web
> >> Server to IIS 6.0. I wrote nearly all of the CGI on the
> >> server so I've got a pretty good handle on what its
> >> trying to do. There are several scripts that provide
> web-
> >> based utilities, to read directories, set permissions,
> >> etc. within the wwwroot. For example, the script will
> >> get a directory listing of all the subdirs in a given
> >> directory and print those back to the browser. When
> this
> >> CGI script (written in PERL) runs on the IIS 6.0
> machine,
> >> none of the directories get printed. The same script
> >> executed locally on the server via command line works
> >> fine. Other functions of CGI seem to work ok,
> >> interfacing with a MySQL database, formmailers, etc.
> But
> >> when a script needs to create a file on the server, or
> in
> >> similar filesystem/operating system interactions, this
> >> external process doesn't take place. What do I need to
> >> allow for this to work? On the cgi-bin virtual
> directory
> >> I've permitted all the checkboxes, but that didn't seem
> >> to help: Script Source Access, Read, Write, Directory
> >> Browsing, Log visits, Index this resouce.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >> Mike
> >
> >
> >.
> >