IIS7 PerlScript ASP

Hi,
I've love to know how to get this working, or if it even works at
all. Someone already started a forum post on this, but with no response.
http://community.activestate.com/forum-topic/help-windows-20 08-server-asp-perlscript
I tried adding perlis.dll to the ISAPI filters and the ISAPI and CGI
Restrictions, but then my 500 became:-


HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error


The requested page cannot be accessed because the related
configuration data for the page is invalid.

So I'm guessing I've missed something or perlis.dll doesn't work for
IIS7. Seeing that the source for perlis.dll isn't public, I've hit a bit
of a dead end :(


Lyle

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RE: IIS7 PerlScript ASP

On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Lyle wrote:
>
> I've love to know how to get this working, or if it even works at
> all. Someone already started a forum post on this, but with no response.
> http://community.activestate.com/forum-topic/help-windows-20 08-server-asp-perlscript
> I tried adding perlis.dll to the ISAPI filters and the ISAPI and CGI
> Restrictions, but then my 500 became:-
>
>
> HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error
>
>
> The requested page cannot be accessed because the related
> configuration data for the page is invalid.
>
> So I'm guessing I've missed something or perlis.dll doesn't work for
> IIS7. Seeing that the source for perlis.dll isn't public, I've hit a bit
> of a dead end :(

PerlScript and Perl for ISAPI are different things.

However, both PerlScript and the Perl for ISAPI plugin (as well as PerlEx)
only work with 32-bit IIS, so you will need to enable 32-bit application
support for your App Pool.

Caveat: I'm only guessing here, I haven't actually tried running 32-bit Perl
on top of 64-bit IIS, so I don't know if it really works or not.

Cheers,
-Jan

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Re: IIS7 PerlScript ASP

On 29/07/2010 23:32, Jan Dubois wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Lyle wrote:
>
>> I've love to know how to get this working, or if it even works at
>> all. Someone already started a forum post on this, but with no response.
>> http://community.activestate.com/forum-topic/help-windows-20 08-server-asp-perlscript
>> I tried adding perlis.dll to the ISAPI filters and the ISAPI and CGI
>> Restrictions, but then my 500 became:-
>>
>>
>> HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error
>>
>>
>> The requested page cannot be accessed because the related
>> configuration data for the page is invalid.
>>
>> So I'm guessing I've missed something or perlis.dll doesn't work for
>> IIS7. Seeing that the source for perlis.dll isn't public, I've hit a bit
>> of a dead end :(
>>
> PerlScript and Perl for ISAPI are different things.
>

I'm curious as to the mechanism from which the ASP script recognises
PerlScript?

> However, both PerlScript and the Perl for ISAPI plugin (as well as PerlEx)
> only work with 32-bit IIS, so you will need to enable 32-bit application
> support for your App Pool.
>

Hey that worked :D

> Caveat: I'm only guessing here, I haven't actually tried running 32-bit Perl
> on top of 64-bit IIS, so I don't know if it really works or not.
>

Is proper 64-bit support planned? It's all XML config files, so I would
have thought having the ActivePerl install create the file mappings,
etc, wouldn't be to hard... Or are you waiting for the 64-bit Perl on
windows to mature more?


Lyle

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RE: IIS7 PerlScript ASP

On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Lyle wrote:
> On 29/07/2010 23:32, Jan Dubois wrote:
> > PerlScript and Perl for ISAPI are different things.
>
> I'm curious as to the mechanism from which the ASP script recognises
> PerlScript?

You must have a LANGUAGE=PerlScript attribute in your ASP script so that
ASP knows to load the PerlScript engine:

<%@ LANGUAGE = PerlScript%>

PerlScript itself is an "ActiveX Scripting Engine" that is registered as a COM
object in your registry.

> > However, both PerlScript and the Perl for ISAPI plugin (as well as PerlEx)
> > only work with 32-bit IIS, so you will need to enable 32-bit application
> > support for your App Pool.
>
> Hey that worked :D

Excellent! I was hoping it would.

> > Caveat: I'm only guessing here, I haven't actually tried running 32-bit Perl
> > on top of 64-bit IIS, so I don't know if it really works or not.
> >
>
> Is proper 64-bit support planned? It's all XML config files, so I would
> have thought having the ActivePerl install create the file mappings,
> etc, wouldn't be to hard... Or are you waiting for the 64-bit Perl on
> windows to mature more?

Well, the implementation of an ActiveX Scripting Engine is not just XML config
files, it is a whole bunch of C++ code that would need to be ported to 64-bit
mode. The actual registry of a COM object is not an issue; that code would
already work automatically.

It is not currently planned to do this porting effort unless a significant
number of people ask for it, for example via email to support@activestate.com.
I don't know the current numbers, but someone *is* keeping count of these
requests. But if only 3 people ever ask for it, then it is unlikely that
we'll schedule 2 weeks of work to implement it (just making up some numbers
here).

Cheers,
-Jan



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