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Hi,
I know that this issue with running CGI has come up a number of times in the forum, but I have gone through all of them to no avail!

I am trying to run a CGI web app on an IIS7.5 server. I have gone through the documentation and have followed it exactly (as far as I can tell).
I have turned off the firewall, and have checked that my ActivePerl is the correct version (32 bit). I have tried with a number of different static ports and I have tried with auto port.

Still, this is the error that I get back in my web browser, "Application launched, but unable to connect using port 8888". Any ideas why this would be?
I notice that this is an error that comes up in the CGI script, but it's rather an ambiguous error so it's hard to know why it doesn't connect.

If I run the exe from Command Prompt using "Start filepath port", the site runs fine and I can connect to it?
Example would be Start C:/Inetpub/TestOEHome/TestOEHome.exe 8888
However, I don't really want to manually start the executable every time someone wants to connect to the site!

I have managed to adjust the Perl Script to give me a Windows Error code # 5 "Access is denied". But I can't work out how the access is denied. The firewall is definitely off, and the permissions are very generous.

Does anyone have any advice/suggestions? They would be gratefully received.

Thanks,
Josh

what version of RS did you compile the web application with?

The version is 2012 release 2.1.
Thanks,
Josh

Look in the taskmanager which user starts the executable cgi and look if that user has access to the directory where the program is located. I think there could be your problem.
HTH
Andre

Thanks very much for your response Andre!
I ended up re-installing the Operating System and starting again from scratch, it worked pretty well straight up after that!
I was still wondering what the issue might have been, so your advice is a good place to start looking next time.

Thanks again,
Josh