The following things are assumed:



   1. You are running Windows Server 2003

   2. IIS 6.0

   3. You installed ActiveState ActivePerl (http://www.activestate.com) to C:\Perl

   4. You are using default (unmodified) ACLs/Permissions



Load IIS from the Administrative tools in the Control Panel by clicking
Start -> Administrative Tools -> IIS Manager (or loading the
Control Panel, entering the Administrative Tools folder, and double
clicking IIS Manager).



Click the name of your computer then click “Web Service Extensions”, on
the left side of the main frame you will see a green arrow pointing to
a link that says “Add a new Web service extension…”, click that link.



In that window, where it asks for the extension name you can put
anything, like “CGI script” and under the “Required Files” section put
the following in (without the apostrophes) ‘C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe “%s”
%s’ click OK to the notification, click “Set status to allowed” and
press ok.



Now, load up a command prompt (Start->Run… type cmd) and type (without the quotes) “md c:\inetpub\cgi-bin”



Back in the IIS Manager right click Default Web Site highlight “New” in
the pop-up menu and click “Virtual Directory…” in the new menu



Click next to the first dialog in the wizard, then as a the alias put
“cgi-bin” and click next then as a path for the next dialog put in
“c:\inetpub\cgi-bin”.  On the next dialog leave everything checked
and check execute and click next



Click Finish to end the wizard.



Now right-click cgi-bin and click properties



Click Configuration in the lower right-hand area of the dialog and make
sure .pl is there (if it isn’t, add it the way you see it)





To make your scripts work the shebang line (#!/usr/bin/perl) should now
be #!C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe .  Any reference to any files should be
changed from /home/user etc, to c:/home/user or c:\home\users - note
the double back-slashes.



Also, renaming your .cgi scripts to .pl is highly recommended



Assuming this is all done correctly, you should now be able to run your
Perl scripts successfully using Windows Server 2003, and IIS 6.0