CGI problems in Personal Web Server

[pehr anderson]

Dear Bertilo,

I found this which may be helpful. 
Good luck finding a solution to your problem!
	-pehr
	
http://www.activescripting.org/html/projects.html

                  ActiveScripting for Apache Project - 
                  Beta 1 for Win32 Now Available


                  The ActiveScripting Organization has announced the
immediate
                  availability of the Beta 1 release of the
ActiveScripting for Apache
                  (Win32) project. The project will deliver an Open
Source
                  implementation of Microsoft?s Active Scripting hosting
architecture
                  that will run with the Apache Web server on Windows
NT, Sun Solaris,
                  and Linux. At the Open Source Developer Day Conference
on August
                  21, the ActiveScripting Organization gave the first
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                  (Win32) project.



Bertilo Wennergren wrote:
> 
> pehr anderson:
> 
> > Bertilo Wennergren wrote:
> 
> > > I have weird problems getting Python 2.0 CGI to work in my Personal
> > > Web Server (Microsoft). All I get is "Internal server error ".
> 
> > > The funny thing is that I had CGI with Python 1.6 running just fine
> > > only two days ago. I had the Active State distribution installed, and
> > > I had changed the necessary registry setting. Everything worked
> > > perfectly.
> 
> > > Then I uninstalled 1.6 and installed 2.0 instead, but now it's
> > > impossible to get CGI working in PWS. Even stranger, the section
> > > in the registry that controls this has stopped having any effect
> > > at all. A long while ago I got CGI with perl working by changing
> > > these registry settings - and offering a heard or two of goats... -
> > > but now perl CGI keeps running even if I delete that part of
> > > the registry. It simply doesn't matter what I do. The before
> > > crucial registry settings have stopped having any relevance
> > > whatsoever. Perl CGI runs along happily, and Python CGI is
> > > impossible to activate.
> 
> > I'm not sure if you will get much constructive advice other
> > than "switch to apache" allong with "use a server-grade OS like
> > NT Workstation or linux".
> 
> Maybe not.
> 
> > Apache does run well under all flavors of windows, however Win 95/98
> > are simply not designed to be friendly to long-running server
> > processes.  If you can't upgrade a server OS, then you will at least
> > want to evaluate upgrading to Apache.
> 
> > I don't know if this is helpful in the short term, but in the
> > long term it will be valuable to have the flexability and control
> > provided by the apache server.
> 
> Regretfully I wouldn't be able to do any ASP work on Apache. I do
> a lot of ASP as well. It would be really nice to be able to develop
> CGI in Perl, CGI in Python, ASP in VBScript, ASP in JavaScript, and
> ASP in PerlScript - all in the same server. Maybe I could add PHP
> as well. (I don't know about Java servlets...)
> 
> > Microsoft *has* to cripple their
> > personal web server as it can't be allowed to compete with their
> > expensive IIS webserver.  Their business incentives prevent them
> > from giving you a good solution.
> 
> PWS is OK for development of things that will later run on IIS.
> 
> > Apache gives everybody "full power" on any platform.
> > http://apache.org/docs/windows.html
> 
> Does "full power" include ASP?
> 
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