[vwnc] Win 7 and VisualWorks WTK server

Good morning everybody,

I am trying to use Window 7 and run the WTK server behind the IIS on
it.  I am not sure how to configure the relays such as cgi2vw.exe to
work with the IIS 7.
It was relatively easy thing to do in Win XP...

Does anybody  have any experience in that area ?

--Mark

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Yes, IIS gets fussier and fussier, and changes the configuration every time. That's one of the reasons we have an ISAPI relay. I would also generally prefer the Perl relay to the executable ones, as it's vastly simpler and easier to mess with. But IIS didn't like either that or the exe ones as much as it liked the ISAPI. And we have literally had the scenario where the settings had to be one way on a US configured Windows and different on a Japanese configured Windows. One particular setting (and I'm assured by the people who could read Japanese that it was exactly the same setting) had to be on in one configuration and off in the other.

So the easiest way to deal with this is to install Apache :-)  But if you're stuck with or determined to use IIS, I would go with the ISAPI gateway.

At 10:01 AM 2010-01-13, Mark Pirogovsky wrote:

Good morning everybody,

I am trying to use Window 7 and run the WTK server behind the IIS on
it.  I am not sure how to configure the relays such as cgi2vw.exe to
work with the IIS 7.
It was relatively easy thing to do in Win XP...

Does anybody  have any experience in that area ?

--Mark

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Oh, the other thing that might be possible with newer IIS versions is to see if you can do something like Apache's reverse proxy so that a gateway isn't required at all.

At 01:58 PM 2010-01-13, Alan Knight wrote:

Yes, IIS gets fussier and fussier, and changes the configuration every time. That's one of the reasons we have an ISAPI relay. I would also generally prefer the Perl relay to the executable ones, as it's vastly simpler and easier to mess with. But IIS didn't like either that or the exe ones as much as it liked the ISAPI. And we have literally had the scenario where the settings had to be one way on a US configured Windows and different on a Japanese configured Windows. One particular setting (and I'm assured by the people who could read Japanese that it was exactly the same setting) had to be on in one configuration and off in the other.

So the easiest way to deal with this is to install Apache :-)  But if you're stuck with or determined to use IIS, I would go with the ISAPI gateway.

At 10:01 AM 2010-01-13, Mark Pirogovsky wrote:

Good morning everybody,

I am trying to use Window 7 and run the WTK server behind the IIS on
it.  I am not sure how to configure the relays such as cgi2vw.exe to
work with the IIS 7.
It was relatively easy thing to do in Win XP...

Does anybody  have any experience in that area ?

--Mark

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