[REBOL] Re: Setting for IIS
From: pa:russo:perd at: 22-May-2001 14:13
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Paolo Russo" <[pa--russo--perd--com]>
>To: <[rebol-list--rebol--com]>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 5:22 AM
>Subject: [REBOL] Re: Setting for IIS
>
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "Athanasios Dimopoulos" <[Athanasios--Dimopoulos--eurodyn--com]>
>> >To: <[rebol-list--rebol--com]>
>> >Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 10:42 PM
>> >Subject: [REBOL] Setting for IIS
>> >
>> >
>> >> Hi....
>> >> Newbie wants help...
>> >> Does anybody know how I can set Rebol to work with IIS,
>> >> in order to produce dynamic web pages?
>> >> What software do i need? rebolCore? rebolview?
>> >> Any settings?
>> >
>> >Core is all you need, (unless there are specific features of View that
>you
>> >wish to use such as generating images on the fly.) Install instructions
>for
>> >IIS are here
>http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-13.html#pgfId-957130
>> >
>> >Cheers,
>> >
>> >Allen K
>>
>> Hi Athanasios,
>>
>> sadly enough due the continuous striving for "innovation" by
>> Microsoft I found recently to my dismay that those settings are no
>> more accurate for the new IIS on Windows 2000. I have to confess I'm
>> not a IIS/Windows expert and that after a couple of days of failures
>> I took the easy way to solve the problem: FreeBSD + Apache. Me being
>> ignorant about Apache as much as I am about IIS after a couple of
>> hours I had my system up and running.
>> If you are bound to Windows, but not to IIS, I suggest you to
>> download the Win version of Apache from www.apache.org. What you
>> learn today about Apache will help you for a lot of time (and
>> releases), while what you learn today about IIS could become useless
>> with Microsoft's next "innovative" release.
>> HTH
>
>Paolo, I have it working on my system by following those directions. Was
>there a recent patch that broke something?
>
>Cheers,
>
Allen K
Honestly, I don't know. I received a clean server with installed the
latest release (and patches) of Win 2000 with the latest version of
IIS.
I wanted to give a try to Win2000.
Troubles begun when I found that MICROSOFT's on-line help was not
consistent with its own IIS configuration masks. At long last and
with some help (thanks to Michael Kracik) I figured out how to make
REBOL start as a CGI for IIS, but Internet Explorer continued to
complain about uncorrect headers, etc... Then I tried to install
Apache and with the same testing environment and all went smooth. I'm
not so expert on system configuration, so I contacted the assistance
of the ISP who will house our server. The idea was: you know what to
do, so you can reinstall the system anew and then follow this
configuration instructions that we know to work for other users.
No way. I don't know why. And this is exactly my point. With every
new version of Windows/IIS/Explorer there's something changed and you
don't know what or where. Sometimes is for good, more often not.
Almost always you have to learn a lot of thing anew to reach exactly
the same results as before and you can't be sure that something will
not broke due to a change in function #369 of DLL #1,472 which is
unfortunately incompatible with the odd builds of DLL #235, which you
will find inadvertandly on your system if you installed Win2000
Service Pack 3 exactly on friday 13th of february 2001.
In my opinion there are funnier ways if you want to be a masochist.
Seriously, I work on tight schedules and budgets and I can't spend
time and money to reinvent the wheel each time. So, after losing 3
days, I decided to trash Win2000 and I opted for FreeBSD. Microsoft
doesn't pay me to debug their systems.
Sorry for the outburst, but if I can't let it out on the list of a
product which claims that "simple things have to be simple to do"...
--
Paolo Russo
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