CGI problems in Personal Web Server

[pehr anderson]

Dear Bertilo,

I'm not sure if you will get much constructive advice other
than "switch to apache" allong with "use a server-grade OS like 
NT Workstation or linux".

Apache does run well under all flavors of windows, however Win 95/98 
are simply not designed to be friendly to long-running server
processes.  If you can't upgrade a server OS, then you will at least
want to evaluate upgrading to Apache. 

I don't know if this is helpful in the short term, but in the
long term it will be valuable to have the flexability and control
provided by the apache server. Microsoft *has* to cripple their
personal web server as it can't be allowed to compete with their
expensive IIS webserver.  Their business incentives prevent them 
from giving you a good solution.

Apache gives everybody "full power" on any platform.
http://apache.org/docs/windows.html

	-pehr

Bertilo Wennergren wrote:
> 
> I have weird problems getting Python 2.0 CGI to work in my Personal
> Web Server (Microsoft). All I get is "Internal server error ".
> 
> The funny thing is that I had CGI with Python 1.6 running just fine
> only two days ago. I had the Active State distribution installed, and
> I had changed the necessary registry setting. Everything worked
> perfectly.
> 
> Then I uninstalled 1.6 and installed 2.0 instead, but now it's
> impossible to get CGI working in PWS. Even stranger, the section
> in the registry that controls this has stopped having any effect
> at all. A long while ago I got CGI with perl working by changing
> these registry settings - and offering a heard or two of goats... -
> but now perl CGI keeps running even if I delete that part of
> the registry. It simply doesn't matter what I do. The before
> crucial registry settings have stopped having any relevance
> whatsoever. Perl CGI runs along happily, and Python CGI is
> impossible to activate.
> 
> Anyone has any idea what could be happening, and what I should
> try next?
> 
> (BTW: I have restarted my machine - running Windows 98 - several
> times...)
> 
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