Problems getting even simple examples working on IIS-6 :(

[CaveGuy]

I am having fits with win2003 server and cgi's. I am sure I am missing something stupid. Eariler versions works just fine on windows 2000 and NT4 servers for that matter. When I map ".cgi" to newlisp.exe and attempt to access an index.cgi that contains a simple (print ...) statement, I can see the exe running in the task manager. It loops for several minutes untill something times out. The browser reports; "CGI Timeout The specified CGI application exceeded the allowed time for processing. The server has deleted the process.[/color]" I can see the task die in the task manager when the timeout happens.



I see that there is now a newlisp.dll, can I use it with IIS6?



Appacheehehe is looking better every day :)

But not an option this time.

[Lutz]

I am not familiar with IIS, but the first thing you always print from your cgi file should be (may be preceded by other header info like cookies):



(print "Content-type: text/htmlrnrn")



and the last statement should be:



(exit)





If one of the two things is missing you will get error messages and timeouts.



A minimum newlisp cgi would be:



(print "Content-type: text/htmlrnrn")

(println "<h2>Hello World</h2>")

(exit)



Another file I use often to debug cgi stuff is:



http://www.newlisp.org/environment.cgi">http://www.newlisp.org/environment.cgi



the source for this is in:



http://nuevatec.com/newlisp/environment.txt">http://nuevatec.com/newlisp/environment.txt



Lutz



ps: newlisp.dll will not help you here.

[CaveGuy]

No Joy... Tried them both, there is something messed up with 2003's priviledges, I am sure .... I will try and mess with it again in the morning.

[alexobelanger]

Gents,



This may be a newbie topic for you. I am trying to get the newlips-blog 3 7 to work with IIS 5



Here is what I did,



1. Install newlisp on C:newlisp

2. Extract the .tgz to C:InetPubwwwrootblog

3. Created a virtual folder (alias=blog)

4. Mapped .cgi extension to C:newlispnewlisp.exe

5. Check NTFS file permissions, look alright

6. modify index.cgi first line

FROM #!/usr/bin/newlisp

TO #!/newlisp

using IE -> http://localhost/blog/index.cgi">http://localhost/blog/index.cgi

Got error message:

"CGI Timeout

The specified CGI application exceeded the allowed time for processing. The server has deleted the process."

7. created helloworld.cgi:

#!/newlisp

(print "Content-type: text/htmlrnrn")

(println "<h2>Hello World</h2>")

(exit)



using IE -> http://localhost/blog/helloworld.cgi">http://localhost/blog/helloworld.cgi

Got error message:

"CGI Timeout

The specified CGI application exceeded the allowed time for processing. The server has deleted the process."



I see the newlisp.exe process start in the windows task manager, which would indicate the mapping is ok!

Any ideas?



Thanks,



- Alex

[nigelbrown]

An earlier thread has some discussion of cgi with IIS on winXP - maybe

there is a hint there (I'd don't know enough about cgi to judge if

it's relevant)



thread - Web based address list from PalmPilot



Nigel

[alexobelanger]

Thanks Nigel, it did provide some pointers.



This article proved to be useful to me, it discusses how to make python scripts run on IIS



http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;276494&Product=iis50">http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... duct=iis50">http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;276494&Product=iis50



When mapping the newlisp executable:

WRONG C:newlispnewlisp.exe

RIGHT C:newlispnewlisp.exe %s %s



helloworld.cgi and environment.cgi does work...but not index.cgi yet

will continue working on it...



- Alex