IIS 5 Question

Alright, I'm pretty much a n00b when it comes to IIS.....been working with apache, but now i'm being forced to use IIS for a project.

I have this mapping application I am going to run on it.....and it needs to be installed in the cgi-bin directory....the problem is, I have no idea how to declare what the cgi-bin directory is...i know it is usually called cgi-bin if you put it inside the wwwroot, or scripts if you put it outside the wwwroot.....

i have 4 sites running on iis....so i want to put it inside the wwwroot...however, just creating a directory called cgi-bin doesn't seem to work....i looked in the properties and can't seem to find where to declare it anywhere....

any help would be greatly appreciated

Got Haggis? said:

Alright, I'm pretty much a n00b when it comes to IIS.....been working with apache, but now i'm being forced to use IIS for a project.

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that must piss you off to no end heh

yeah it does.....heh.

more information....the application i'm trying to use as a cgi is an exe file....called mapserv.exe

so it's passed files like

http://whatever.gov/mapserv?state=maryland&year=1980

that sort of thing

add a new virtual directory
then right click -> properties -> change Execute permissions to scripts and executables.

Think thats what you're looking for

tried that....i'm starting to think maybe it's the application that isn't working correctly

Got Haggis? said:

tried that....i'm starting to think maybe it's the application that isn't working correctly

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that could be. We run dll's in our's and we don't have any problems .

yep fixed it...it was a problem with a directory in the ini file....