Re: Belay that request re: perms on NT

The web server impersonates an anonymous user called IUSER_computer name
which is set up automatically  when you install PWS. Check in musrmgr (it is
a local account). By default this account is a member of the guests group
(and therefore, everyone). If files are on another server, you must make a
domain IUSR account so the other server recognises it or create the IUSR
account on that server also. What authentication method are you using?
Anonymous should work whatever. Q207671 on Microsoft TEchnet Knowledge base
has useful info on authentication across a network.

I think any external commands are created in a separate process, so this may
be the problem. I remember hearing that this causes a problem with stdio,
but I'm not sure. I think you had to use AllocConsole in script or
CreateCGIWithNewConsole=true in IIS metabase. This is probably way off base
the only thing I do with Perl is to run a test script to make sure it's
configured before passing over to someone else!  Have you experimented with
hardcoding the path (needs to be physical path) to the file to see if it is
the open or finding the file that is the problem? If you are opening the
file, the user may need to write to the directory.

Do you get any error messages? anything in the logs or Event viewer?

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----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Evans <chuck.evans(at)hksystems.com>
To: <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 12:54 AM
Subject: Belay that request re: perms on NT


> Seems I've got perms set well enough that the test-perl.pl script is
> working. What isn't working is a method I'm using to pull text files
> into variables within the perl script for generating standard page
> elements (my way of having "includes" within the perl file).
>
> Again, this seems to be a problem with the NT permissions.
>
> My guess is that the web server/anonymous user doesn't have permission
> to open a FILE for processing. Do I need to add a special Internet user?
>
> I am waaaaay confused!
>
> This is an example of the code that is now not working (though it does
> not make the script blow up):
>
> # Read in the uc_thankyou_top.txt file.
>
> $tempincl = "uc_thankyou_top.txt";
>
> # Note: $inclpathline gives full path to file to include
> # and changes depending on which server the files are on.
>
> open(FILE,"$inclpathline$tempincl");
>
> @FILE = <FILE>;
>
> close(FILE);
>
> # Join these lines from the file into one large string.
>
> $uc_thankyou_top = join('',@FILE);
>
> THEN, In another part of the Perl file, where I'm printing a thankyou
> page, I just put:
>
> sub thankYou
> {
>
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
>
> print "$uc_thankyou_top\n";     # THIS IS WHERE FILE IS INCLUDED
>
> # The print statements below work, and show in the browser just fine:
>
> print "<h2>This is the contact information you gave us:</h2>\n";
> print "<p><B>Your Name:</B> $firstname $lastname\n";
> print "<br><B>Title:</B> $title\n";
> print "<br><B>Company:</B> $company\n";
> print "<br><B>Phone:</B> $phone\n";
> print "<h3>If any of the information shown is incorrect, please <a
> href=\"/localurl/sessreg_content.html\">resubmit your
> registration</a>.</h3>\n";
>
> print "$uc_thankyou_bottom\n";  # ANOTHER INCLUDED FILE
>
> }   # End of thankYou subroutine
>

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