Excuting scripts question

[Ken]

"Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message
news:3EE2AEA5.8A63C18E at engcorp.com...
> Ken wrote:
> >
> > "Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> >  Do you have a web server running on it?
>
> > I installed IIS. (I am running Windows 2000 Pro)
> > I went into Control Panel/Admin Tools/Internet Information
Services/Default
> > Web Site and go into properties. In the "Home Directory" tab, I went
into
> > "Configuration". Clicked "Add", put in the path of python.exe executable
> > (C:\Python22\python.exe), extension "cgi" and pressed ok. Is this the
right
> > way to do it? I am planning to run this Win2000 machine as a web server
for
> > my cgi scripts that used to reside on a Unix machine. The script files
and
> > HTML files are saved into the C:\Inetpub\wwwroot directory.
>
> Well, at least you're a step farther than I feared (i.e. not
> even having a server running).  Unfortunately, you're basically
> asking a Win2K configuration question, and I can't help you
> there except to suggest you simplify the problem so that you
> don't involve your old scripts *and* the server *and* CGI and
> everything else.
>
> What's the simplest thing you can get working that demonstrates
> that the server is able to process CGI?
>
> After that it should be a simple matter to modify the settings
> to handle Python as well.

I basically don't know if my problem with script execution have anything to
do with this first line, which was used on the Unix environment
beforehand....

#!/usr/local/bin/python

Thanks

>
> -Peter