Windows 2003 Standard IIS 6.0 trouble

[Ed McNierney]

Zack -

MapServer works just fine under Windows 2003 Standard and IIS 6.0, and
there's plenty of "proof" of that!

But you do need to take the time to understand how your new tools work
rather than blaming them (or MapServer).  You gave us a lot of
information in your email (thanks) but you didn't say what didn't work!
What is the symptom you're seeing?  What are you doing, and what is the
(unexpected) result you're getting?

     - Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242  

-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
Behalf Of Zachary L. Stauber
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 4:21 PM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Windows 2003 Standard IIS 6.0 trouble

Hi, I'm using Windows 2003 Standard, and I'm trying to get MapServ.exe
to work on it.  Right now I'm just trying out the Itasca dataset.  It's
a permissions problem.  Does anyone have a vaguely detailed process for
setting the permissions or configuring Web Access Extensions or
Application Extensions (or whatever hates MapServer so much) so it gets
past the top level security junk in IIS 6.0?

I have the same version, 4.4.0-beta3 working fine on a Windows XP SP2
machine, with all the files in exactly the same places.  The EXE and all
DLL's are in C:\InetPub\scripts\MapServer\ the C:\Proj data has a copy
of everything it's supposed to, and the Itasca data starts in
C:\InetPub\wwwroot\MapServer\NCTCOG\mapserver_demos\workshop

Before you ask, I set all the directories mentioned above to give
WebAdmin all rights (except full control), I changed all the paths to
the correct places in the "index.html" file, which shows the Itasca map
fine under Windows XP SP2, and I added a "MapServer" entry to the Web
Service Extensions and added every EXE and DLL that it uses with
"Allow."  I also set the Web Service Extensions to "Allow" "All Unknown
CGI Extensions" by default (actually that was set when I got here).

I also made the NCTCOG directory in wwwroot a virtual directory and set
"read" permission, set execute permissions to "Script and Executables,"
and created an application extension for ".map" files and set it to the
mapserv.exe executable.  I also did all this for the
C:\InetPub\scripts\Mapserver directory just in case.

What else can I do to loosen this thing up?  Does anyone actually have
it working under Windows 2003 Standard?  I haven't found proof of this
in over a year of back archives on this mailing list.

     -Zack Stauber
      Systems Analyst
      Bohannan-Huston, Inc.
      Albuquerque, NM
      USA