How do I configure Microsoft Personal Web Server for Windows 95 to support Perl for Win32?
Microsoft Personal Web Server for Windows 95 is a scaled-down version of Microsoft Internet Information Server. Although it is not documented, it appears that the method used to support Perl for Win32 with IIS will also work with Personal Web Server. See question 6.3. 6.8. How do I configure Web Server X to support Perl for Win32? If your Web server isn’t listed, check the server’s documentation on how to set up a CGI interpreter. In general the process is as follows: • Associate a file extension like .pl with the perl binary, and let the server know where the binary is. This may be a shell association, as described in question 4.10, or a custom association. • Setup a directory where executable scripts go, and put your Perl script there. • Ensure that the user account that the Web server uses can read the script as well as any ancillary files (perl binary files, library files, modules, etc.). This usually means making the files available to the Everyone group. Because most Web servers
