dobedani
Mon Aug 30 08:20:35 CDT 2004
Dear Jonathan and others,
Thanks for the reply. I forgot to mention that upon startup the two
executables read settings from one and the same ini-file. It seems
there was an issue about this in one of the newsgroups under
microsoft.public.inetserver last year after Christmas. Anyway, I
changed abcxyz.exe to use its own ini-file, but to no avail. BTW, in
the output of abcxyz.exe I am sometimes getting an error: I/O error
103. Which file could be locked?
I also built in logging, using the log features of CGI Expert. Thus
lines were supposed to be added to a file abcxyz.log in a log
subdirectory under directory scripts. However, those lines also
appeared in file abc.log!
I am getting desperate. I don't know what special things should be
done to make the programme suitable for running on IIS 6.0 - I will
check your site. I don't know why Microsoft should make it so
complicated to use a technology - i.e. CGI - which has been around for
more than 10 years! I am actually considering to switch over to Apache
for Windows. I know my application will work in no time. Anyway, I am
still interested to know how I should solve this problem. TIA
Kind regards,
Dobedani
"Jonathan Maltz [MS-MVP]" <jmaltz@mvps.org> wrote in message news:<#EwokQGjEHA.2688@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl>...
> I don't think it's a bug in IIS 6.0 - is the program meant to run on IIS
> 6.0?
>
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>
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> "Dobedani" <dobedani@gmx.net> wrote in message
> news:d901d5c7.0408270149.2580aea8@posting.google.com...
> > Dear Jonathan and others,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. A reply in the forum for CGI Expert - the 3rd
> > party component I use - put me off a bit, but a colleague already
> > solved the problem for me in my absence. That was before I saw your
> > hint, but at least I understand now what he did and I get the idea
> > behind the section called "web server extensions" now.
> >
> > However, my application does not yet work competely well. The app
> > consists of a few CGI executables, templates with HTML and custom
> > serverside tags, normal HTML-files etc.
> > The most important CGI-executable - say abc.exe - runs in so-called
> > server-mode. This means that there is no need to restart it upon every
> > new request. The CGI-executable rather handles incoming requests as
> > events. This abc.exe normally returns HTML to the requesting browser.
> > Besides I have a 2nd CGI-executable with a similar name - say
> > abcxyz.exe - which normally returns Javascript to the browser when it
> > is invoked due to a line like the following:
> > <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="/scripts/abcxyz.exe"
> > TYPE="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>
> >
> > On Windows NT and XP with IIS<6 my app works all right. However, on
> > Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6.0 it does not! What happens is that
> > abcxyz.exe returns exactly the same output as abc.exe would - i.e.
> > HTML - with the same querystring! I am really certain that they are
> > two different executables though. Neither the Delphi code for building
> > my executables nor the Javascript contains any redirect. I am also
> > certain that "web server extensions properties" for abcxyz, the
> > required file points to the right executable. Am I doing something
> > wrong? Or is this maybe a bug in IIS 6.0? Please help! TIA
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Dobedani
> >
> >
> > "Jonathan Maltz [MS-MVP]" <jmaltz@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:<#QgtYBJhEHA.3944@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>...
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > You don't have a "Web Services Extensions"? Are you running in IIS 5.0
> > > isolation mode (that would cause this not to be there, but isn't
> > > recommended)
> > >
> > > --
> > > --Jonathan Maltz [Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - IIS, Virtual PC]
> > >
http://www.visualwin.com - A Windows Server 2003 visual, step-by-step
> > > tutorial site :-)
> > >
http://vpc.visualwin.com - Does <insert OS name> work on VPC 2004? Find
> out
> > > here
> > > Only reply by newsgroup. I do not do technical support via email. Any
> > > emails I have not authorized are deleted before I see them.
> > >