mapserv.exe - file not found error under Windows 2003

[Richard Greenwood]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:03:38 -0500, Mike Dunham-Wilkie
<mike at barrodale.com> wrote:
> We are trying to run Mapserver under Windows 2003 / IIS.  I have it running
> successfully in a Windows XP environment, but when I follow the same
> installation process / IIS setup on the Windows 2003 box and point to
>
> http://website/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?....
>
> I get a 404 - Page not found error, even though when I go to
>
> http://website/cgi-bin/     (without the mapserv.exe) I get a directory
> listing showing mapserv.exe
>
> The file mapserv.exe appears to have appropriate permissions set.
>
> Does this ring a bell with anyone?
>
> Thanks very much
>
> Mike Dunham-Wilkie
>


Windows 2003 has a new top-level permissions "branch" in IIS Manager
called "Web Service Extensions" which caused me endless grief. Once
you know where to look it's pretty straight forward. There is some
discussion at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/standard/ca_configcgi.asp

And the 404 error is totally misleading!

HTH
--
Richard Greenwood
richard.greenwood at gmail.com
www.greenwoodmap.com