CGI Apache winXP

[Stynki]

I'm going bonkers trying to get rebol CGI to work. I got it to work under win98 but I can't get it to work under XP. I have a fresh install, I'm using the latest version of Apache and I know my script header is pointing to the correct path. I'm pretty sure that I've made the correct changes to the Apache Confiq file (It worked with win98).

Is there anything different about XP that I would not have t do in Win98?

[Gabriele]

Just a wild guess: permissions. The user Apache is running as has to have the permission to execute REBOL.

[Stynki]

I'm running apache locally so I do think its a "permissions" problem.

I'm able to run CGI scripts if I start apache from its icon in the bin dir. It's when I run it from the apache monitor that do not seem to be able do CGI.

Perhaps a different confiq file is used when started from apache monitor.

At least I got it running sort of....

[Gabriele]

Whether you are running locally or not is irrelevant --- the problem is, which user is Apache running as? Does this user have permission to execute REBOL?

On Unix, this is very easy to figure out. On Windows, it's quite painful.

[Guest]

I just read on "CGI 101":

On XP you don't need to worry about file permissions. A CGI program is always executable, and your programs can always write to files to your directory. (Although, this isn't necessarily a good thing...)

I do not any way to set permissions anyway on XP.  

[Sunanda]

As someone who recently wasted a morning trying to get PHP working under XP, you have my sympathy.

What exactly is the sympton? What do you see in the browser window? Anything at all useful in the Apache access or error logs?