FLASH: <OT> Any NT gurus have any advice???

[Scott D. LeMieux]

(Sorry for the way off topic post. Just looking for as much advice as I

can get.)


OK. Here is the scenario. Visited CNET's top 25 web hosts site and

decided I would try Express Technologies also known as Half Price

Hosting (they also happen to be a member of the Web Host Guild), for a

small web site I am designing for a client.


Before signing up, I called there tech support to find out what version

of perl they were running and if I had full and complete access to

cgi-bin and if I could get permissions set on NT machines (need NT for

ASP). They gave me all the correct answers, so I signed up. Then the

problems began.


For testing, I first put this simple perl script in my cgi-bin.

                   #!/usr/local/bin/perl


                    print "Content-type: text/plain\n";

                    print "\n";

                    print "hello world! by perl\n";


Received the error:"...server could not process script..."


Then I put in a simple cgi script

                    print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

                    print "Hello world.\n";


                    Received the error

                    "%1 is not a valid Windows NT application"


Called tech support and they told me everything was fine and my scripts

were faulty, even though I could run them on my Win98 machine will

activeperl.


I asked them to check it out and turns out perl was

not correctly mapped. I asked them to map cgi the same way they did perl

and they

told me mapping for cgi does not need to be done. I asked them to amuse

me and map

cgi anyway and they suggested I change all my scripts to .pl and that it

was

impossible to map cgi. (They are running NT IIS4.0)


Please correct me if I am wrong!!! All they need to do is map .cgi to

D:\perl\bin\perl.exe %s %s and check their Win32 registry. A very simple

fix, Right? Then the next

time they reboot there servers all should be well.


If anyone has any suggestions for me, I would

greatly appreciate it. I will let everyone know how this turns out. In

the meantime, let me

strongly suggest you STAY FAR AWAY FROM Express Technologies also known

as Half

Price Hosting


Thanks in advance. (and sorry for the long post)


Scott LeMieux





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