cgi scripts and windows 2000

Apparently I'm doing something really wrong because i can't get cgi scripts to run on any of my windows 2000 boxes. I've installed active perl and have done everything they said to do on their webpage, including file extensions and the whole nine yards.

I tried two machines running IIS5 and one machine running Apache on win2000. The only thing that happens is I get either a server error error msg, or it just times out and nothing happens. All other webpages work fine on the server. I've tried several different scripts, from as simple as "Hello world" to a bulletin board.

Any ideas???? Please???? <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

Poor you!!!

Look, it may not be this, but stacks of scripting problems in web/intranet apps are caused as a result of permissions on a NTFS drive.

IIS has (???) to be installed on ntfs, and for the site to work properly, your IUSR_Local machine account has to have a minimum set of permissions.

One of these relates to ODBC. For example, you may be calling an app in Program Files>Common Files>ODBC (or DAO). If so , you gotta give the user permission to read (at least)- and it may not be on C:/ drive or where the wwwroot folder is.

There is a load of stuff (if you can be bothered) on MS about this, but as a first step, I'd check event viewer on your server (or box if IiS is actually Personal Web Server), and see what error messages are happening when you try and execute your scripts.

Maybe a bit more on the error message you get (like, what it actually says!!) would help us assist.

Good luck