Re: Help with MS Internet Information Server, please

Some tips. Since we have not really tried to have pyblosxom installed on 
windows much, we wouldn't really know what your problem could be unless 
we have something similar to your environment. But here's something you 
could do to test things out yourself.

 * Ensure that pyblosxom can run (looks like you have yours running)
 * IIS seems to have this problem of not passing the PATH_INFO 
environment, but this may not be the cause of the problem you are having.
 * Ensure that there are no spaces in your path, instead of 
"C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents" try to have your datadir 
on "c:\blog" for example.
 * Try to not have spaces on your file names. One thing pyblosxom does 
not do right now is to escape spaces to uri friendly data (%20) 
especially on links (We can have a plugin that solves that)
 * See if using unix like paths on datadir work: "/blog" as opposed to 
"c:\blog". Note that this trick will not work if your datadir is in 
drive d:\

Other than that, IIS may run pyblosxom in a psuedo-chroot style. Which 
means pyblosxom can't see anything right. put your datadir directory 
where your pyblosxom.cgi is.

I have a hard time trying to understand ISS and have no idea how to 
configure it properly.. You may have some tips (document that in the 
wiki), other users might want to chip in other tips as well.

Hunting, Sam (LNG-EWR) wrote:

>Installation on linux is a breeze, but for work, I have to install on
>Windows NT.
>
>I have Internet Information Service up and running, and a simple test.py
>works in my cgi-bin directory, but for some reason I can't get IIS to
>recognize the pyblosxom datadir. I get a "The page you are looking for is
>not available" error message, and the "permanent link to this entry" looks
>like this
><p>Posted at:  | path: 
>  <a href="/" title="path">/</a> 
>| <a href="/.html">permanent link to this entry</a>
></p></div>
>
>Any thoughts? Any simple step-by-step instructions for getting pyblosxom up
>and running on Windows?
>  
>


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