KB190002 - CGI and Perl Applications Do Not Run in a New Console

Article ID: 190002

Article Last Modified on 6/23/2005

Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0

This article was previously published under Q190002

We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 6.0 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. IIS 6.0 significantly increases Web infrastructure security. For more information about IIS security-related topics, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/IIS.mspx

SYMPTOMS

CGI and Perl applications do not run in a new console.

WORKAROUND

With the Windows Script Host enabled, start the command prompt and go to the following directory:

<%System_Root%>\System32\Inetsrv\Adminsamples

Then, type the following command:

adsutil set w3svc/CreateCGIWithNewConsole "1"

MORE INFORMATION

To run CGI applications in Internet Information Server (IIS) 3.0 and earlier, "CreateProcessWithNewConsole" was added as a REG_DWORD with a value of "1" to the following registry key:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3SVC\Parameters

This method does not work in IIS 4.0.

Additional query words: reg akz

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