Setting for IIS

Well I'd suggest you start with a decent webserver, IIS is a Black Hat's paradise ;)) That aide, get /core, not /view - /view has lots of stuff you don't need or want for cgi. Talk to your sys admin people to find out which version of Windows they are using and download the apropriate /core archive. You'll probably have to get them to install it for you.

What's this? Virtual business card or something? Chris

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 Russo [pa--russo--perd--com] _________________ PERD s.r.l. Virtual Technologies for Real Solutions http://www.perd.com

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Paolo, I have it working on my system by following those directions. Was there a recent patch that broke something? Cheers, Allen K

To add to what Pauolo is saying.... I believe that Apache is the webserver for the majority of Server hosting CGI applications. I do most of my work on Linux now, but I worked with PWS on Win NT for some time. It was easy to configure, and had the advantage of not having to resolve the issue of having one path to the rebol binary on one's desktop and a different path to the binary on the server. Using the PWS with the registry made that problem moot. And there is no way (that I know of) to make a symbolic link on Window$.... -- Tim Johnson <[tim--johnsons-web--com]> http://www.johnsons-web.com "My shroe, my shroe, my dingkom for a shroe!" --TheManWhoSpeaksInAnagrams (Monty Python)

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 [pa--russo--perd--com] _________________ PERD s.r.l. Virtual Technologies for Real Solutions http://www.perd.com