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

From: BB (Bernard_at_3exp.com)
Date: 02/10/03 

From: "BB" <Bernard_at_3exp.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 03:45:58 +0800

See if this help.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=313074
Rgds.

"Allen May" <umayxa3@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:uVY0j#Q0CHA.1764@TK2MSFTNGP10...
> 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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