Re: IIS Config Help - This is a hard one - Migration from Linux to Win2K

From: Allen May (umayxa3@yahoo.com)
Date: 02/10/03 

From:     Allen May <umayxa3@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 06:21:00 -0800

Thank you for this information. I've already pursued these paths though.

The problem is with passing a wildcard variable to the CGI.
In IIS (I want this to work under IIS, not Apache for Windows), I can
point the destination to a file, like an index.htm file, but I can't
pass the additional variables to the CGI, like the Linux process is now.

So, what IIS allows is:
I call http://www.mysite.com/forward_me and it sends me to
http://www.mysite.com/forward_me/myhtml.asp which lives in a Virtual
Directory.

What I need to do is:
When a user calls http://www.mysite.com/forward_me*> (EXAMPLE:
http://www.mysite.com/forward_me/234/mywordfile.com), they are forwarded
to http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/process.cgi

The trailing variables, /234 <a numeric variable> and /mywordfile.doc <a
friendly name>, are processed by the CGI as the UID and friendly name
querry against the database.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

-Allen

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