Unable to complete test

[Stephen Oliver]

I have installed v8 and I am uploading test content to an IIS6 site which is publicly visible on http://shop.eliseweb.com. I have been using IIS6 Setup Guide.

When I go through the web setup wizard the process fails at the point I input the path to the Perl binaries (c:\Perl\bin\perlis.dll - version 5.008) where it says I have version 0.000 installed (obviously not seeing them).

If I use the Advanced Network Setup I can of course plug everything in correctly. When I press Test I get passes on everything except the last items which says:

message: -
). Retry the test

At the top of the screen I get "The test script sent an invalid response (255 ..."

The site has loaded correctly (it's not there at the moment) but I am getting a Set Cookie failure on any script process.

I'm feeling a bit lost at the moment - not sure what to try next. Thoughts anyone?

[Stephen Oliver]

... oh, and when I do a "refresh site" I get:

An error occured while merging files on the remote site. ........ GMTSet-Cookie: ATINIC_BUSINESS=-;PATH=/;OK

Cheers

[wjcampbe]

You should not be looking at perliss.dll, but at perl.exe

Part of the setup process ask that you visit the configuration of the .pl extension in the cgi-bin Properties | Configuration | Application Configuration dialog - its on page 132 of the Advanced User Guide v1.2

[Stephen Oliver]

Not in IIS 6 ... up to IIS 5, yes, but the Advanced User Guide does not seem to agree with the IIS 6 Setup Documentation from Actinic.

[wjcampbe]

I'd follow the AUG - it is a later publication and *usually* written from practical testing. I did intent to proof the AUG steps when I converted my IIS5 setup to IIS6, but that has been put on a backburner for now.

[Stephen Oliver]

Got it working ...

* reinstalled Perl
* indeed, changed .pl extension to c:\perl\bin\perl.exe "%s" %s with the quotes around the first parameter only
* changed the web server extensions

Seems to work now.

Thanks