ARRG...IIS/PWS - Help configuring erebol

Ok...so I've configured erebol to work under IIS before, and then my system got seriously electrocuted. No serviceable backups of the system drive available. So, I've got everything rebuilt, except for getting [the most excellent] erebol configured. I hope...there must be someone on the list who uses IIS or PWs (the config should be similar/same) with erebol or their own homegrown Rebol Server Page solution. Previously I associated .html with erebol.r -- but, I remember cursing for a couple of hours trying to get IIS to properly invoke REBOL. Combinations of command lines like: rebol.exe -cs erebol.r %s %s rebol.exe -s --cgi --script erebol.r %s %s etc... The symptoms of all my attempts include: - REBOL doing nothing but returning its startup banner to the browser (why would this occur, when I've specified either --cgi or -cs?) - REBOL complaining that it cannot evaluate 'erebol.r' (I don't want it to evaluate erebol.r, I want it to do erebol.r) In all cases, rebol doesn't seem to be receiving a valid command line that would have it execute erebol.r. *sigh* Suggestions welcome. Ideally, someone can tell me the magical REBOL command-line they have in their IIS/PWS config. Gavin. -- Gavin McKenzie [gavin_mckenzie--fastmail--fm]

Hi Gavin, This might just annoy you .... so if it does just ignore it. I have seen dozens of questions about the challenges that you are facing on this list. What I am missing is why run IIS when you can run the Xitami server and avoid this stuff? The only answer I have come to so far that makes any sense is that your employer has decreed using IIS so you are running this server at your corporate address. I put a rebol script in my cgi directory including stuff like #! c:\Rebol\View\rebol.exe -cs REBOL [] print "Content-Type: text/html^/" ;-- Required Page Header Because of the #!, I can call this script any file name extension I like and don't have to make an association between this extension and launching REBOL. One option is to call it .htm so it looks like a simple page fetch. Or any other extension like .jsp .pl if that is what makes people feel comfortable. Sorry if this is too obvious or well known. I just know that I tried IIS / PWS as well and spent a lot of hours on it. It was champagne opening time when I got it to work. But since I went to Xitami and REBOL I have not had one of these "*sigh*". No reply is needed ... just Sunday morning coffee pondering.

I think that you summed things up pretty well. Fact is that I have to touch a variety of systems, some M$-based, some not. Apache and IIS are the two that I deal with on a regular basis. This specific application makes use of the tight integration between IIS and M$ SQL Server 2000 -- I can query the database with an old fashioned HTTP GET with the query embedded in an URL, and get back a XML result set ready to be turned into HTML with some help from REBOL. So...in this specific case, I don't have a choice on the server. And, adding more frustration to all of this, I have configured this successfully before. Configuring IIS or PWS to call REBOL for CGI processing is a piece of cake. The fun begins when you want to configure it for REBOL Server Page duty. Otherwise, when not using IIS, I do understand the beauty of the 'shebang' approach. I used *nix years before my hands ever graced a Windows box. No worries. I'm not annoyed by your suggestions. I am blinded with annoyance that I didn't jot down the %#^%#!! syntax that worked previously. Of course, having an image of my system disk would've helped me too, rather than exclusively paying attention to backup policies for the data hard-drives in the system. Gavin.

Hi: Let me make both a suggestion (and I don't know if it would be any help) and ask a question: I have configured rebol to work on PWS on both win NT 4.0 and windows 98 in the following manner Add a new string value to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3Svc\Parameters\Script Map with name of .r and the value of c:\rebol\rebol.exe -cs %s Of course, substituting whatever your path would be.. Now here's my question: What is 'erebol? I hope I've been some help... tim * Gavin McKenzie <[gavin_mckenzie--fastmail--fm]> [020217 04:39]:

> Ok...so I've configured erebol to work under IIS before, and then my > system got seriously electrocuted. No serviceable backups of the > [rebol-request--rebol--com] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes.

erebol stands for 'embedded rebol' and can be used for embedding rebol in text pages, like JSP, ASP, PHP but then with your favourite language. In the script lib.... --Maarten

Quoting yourself from the past.... http://www.escribe.com/internet/rebol/m14806.html Does this help? --Maarten On Monday 18 February 2002 10:19, you wrote: