[rrd-users] Re: Windows 2003 and rrdcgi

[Yurek, Matt]

> I found lots of issues with all
> sorts of CGI's that have stopped working on IIS6, there wasn't much in
> the way of possible fixes....

On the contrary, I have yet to find a CGI that I couldn't get to work on
IIS6.  The issues you speak of are most likely related to the
Application Pools, Permissions, and Group Policy entries.

1.  Create an application group specifically for the website or virtual
directory that your CGIs will run in.  Create a local or domain user
specifically for this application group.  Basic user permissions will be
fine - no need for Administrator.

2.  Assign the user you created to the application group, and assign the
application group to the website or virtual directory.

3.  Open the gpedit.msc policy editor and make sure the user has the
following rights:  Log on as a service, Impersonate a client after
authentication, Allow log on locally

4.  Make sure that the user account you created has at least modify NTFS
rights on the directory your GCI will run from.

5.  Verify that you have created a group and have set allow permissions
properly on the Web Service Extentions manager.

6.  Verify that your website / virtual directory has properly configured
ISAPI application extentions.

As I've said, I've yet to find a CGI that I can't get working, it's just
a matter of un-doing all the security that W2K3 put in place.  Trust me,
it's a good thing.

-Y

-----Original Message-----
From: rrd-users-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch
[mailto:rrd-users-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Ian Farr
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 11:31 AM
To: rrd-users at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [rrd-users] Windows 2003 and rrdcgi

Hello all,
 
I have spent some time on this, and was wondering if anyone else has had
the same issues.
 
I had rrdcgi 1.0.49 installed and running on windowsXP, and windows
2000. When I moved it over to win2003, I just get the following error:
 
"The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete
set of HTTP headers."
 
After researching this, I realized that it is the CGI not returning the
proper headers, or at least not the ones IIS6 expects, as the CGI works
just fine in IIS5 and IIS5.1 (XP).
 
I tried to compile the CGI from 1.2.rc4, but I can't get passed the
configure - ctime_r undefined errors which I am currently working on (I
have an implementation of pthreads for win32 that defines ctime_r, but
haven't been able to get it to work yet).
 
I am trying to compile on winXP using either VS.NET 2003 or MINGW,
nothing works...I am able to successfully compile 1.0.49 from source
using MINGW/MSYS/GCC3.4.2 though...but on 1.2rc4.
 
I would consider running this on *nix/*BSD, but unfortunately I am in a
complete MS shop - we are MS to the bone over here and that is not an
option.
 
so - my questions are: 
 
has anyone successfully compiled rrdcgi 1.2rc4 on windows?
are there any changes to rrdcgi in 1.2rc4 that may make it work in
win2003/IIS6?
has anyone got it to work on IIS6?
 
I tried searching the lists, and while I found lots of issues with all
sorts of CGI's that have stopped working on IIS6, there wasn't much in
the way of possible fixes....I will keep digging myself, and see if I
can get it to work, but I would like to see if I can get rc4 to compile
and try it out...
 
Thanks for any thoughts..
 
_________________________________________
Ian Farr
 
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