Couple of additions to my posting:
> 1. A Virtual Directory called cgi-bin within your web site.
It doesn't have to be called cgi-bin - though that is the normal name for
the script directory.
The Virtual Directory has to have the name that you are going to access via,
as in:
http://your_web_site/
> 1. A Virtual Directory called cgi-bin within your web site.
That was great. Just a couple points, the directory can be called cgi-bin but
doesn't need to be. I made the same changes to one called 'store' tonight on
NT4 and it works.
Secondly for security reasons I've heard it generally recom
Hi Maureen,
> I set up this cgi file and html form on a Unix server. The script
> changes a user's password in a text file.
>
> This works correctly on a Unix Server. However, I need to move these
> files to an IIS server.
> In testing on the IIS server, I get an HTTP Error 405- Method not
> all
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> I set up this cgi file and html form on a Unix server. The script
> changes a user's passw
I hope someone can help me out.
I set up this cgi file and html form on a Unix server. The script
changes a user's password in a text file.
This works correctly on a Unix Server. However, I need to move these
files to an IIS server.
In testing on the IIS server, I get an HTTP Error 405- Method
Hello Maureen,
The only time I've seen the HTTP Error 405- when submitting a form is
when I've inadvertently used action="post" instead of action="POST"
which I see you've done in your script.
I must have banged my head on that for over an hour before I figured
it out. Hope this helps.
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> Rob
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> I
Hanson, Robert wrote:
>It's been a long time since I worked on IIS, but I believe the "Method not
>allowed" error refers to GET, POST, PUT, and HEAD. In IIS you can
>allow/deny each of these, but I forget exactly where in the MMC that this
>was located, it was with the file types.
>
>So maybe ".
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I set up this cgi file and html form on a Unix server. The script
changes a user's password in a text file.
This works correctly on a Uni
