I recently installed ActivePerl 5.8 on my Windows 2003
server with IIS 6.0 installed. It installed fine and
supposedly changed the configuration of IIS to work
with .pl extensions. I can see that it has enabled Perl
CGI and Perl ISAPI in Web Appliations and has added
the .pl extenion to application mapping. However,
whenever I try to open the simple sample "helloworld.pl"
application - I get 403 Access Denied error.

I know this is a permissions error - I have read/execute
enabled for the IIS Anonymous User and I have given
Network Service read/execute to the c:\perl\bin directory
(where the perl executable files are). Any ideas? I
have looked at Active State and Microsoft's sites -
didn't find anything. I have tried this on 2 servers -
both the same problem. Both do have .asp pages working
correctly.

Re: Perl and IIS 6.0 by David

David
Tue Mar 02 16:38:14 CST 2004

If you look in the web log file at
%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\LogFiles\W3SVC#\*.log you should see the exact
sub-error returned with the 403 along with Win32 error. Please report both
of them.

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//David
IIS
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"Amy Lewis" <aslewis@umich.edu> wrote in message
news:597401c4008e$e5f548f0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
I recently installed ActivePerl 5.8 on my Windows 2003
server with IIS 6.0 installed. It installed fine and
supposedly changed the configuration of IIS to work
with .pl extensions. I can see that it has enabled Perl
CGI and Perl ISAPI in Web Appliations and has added
the .pl extenion to application mapping. However,
whenever I try to open the simple sample "helloworld.pl"
application - I get 403 Access Denied error.

I know this is a permissions error - I have read/execute
enabled for the IIS Anonymous User and I have given
Network Service read/execute to the c:\perl\bin directory
(where the perl executable files are). Any ideas? I
have looked at Active State and Microsoft's sites -
didn't find anything. I have tried this on 2 servers -
both the same problem. Both do have .asp pages working
correctly.