#01-016

Getting Mvforms.cgi working on Windows NT

The latest version of Mvforms.cgi has been written to offer the same functionality as the previous version, but extended to support the Windows NT platform.

The script needs to be installed in the appropriate directory for CGI scripts on the web server. The web server needs to have a working perl 5 interpreter and the extension mapping for the .cgi extension must be set to call the perl interpreter. The script also needs access to an SMTP server which may or may not be on the same server.

Perl 5 interpretters are available at two locations on the internet (that we know of), as well as in the NT Server Resource Kit available from Microsoft.

http://www.activestate.com/Products/PerlEx/Download.html has the active state version of perl available via FTP, HTTP and email.

http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/ports/win32/
Standard/x86/perl5.00402-bindist04-bc.zip is the location of Gurusamy Sarathy’s port of Perl 5.004 for Win32.

In the script itself the location of the smtp server needs to be set, this is on the seventh line of the script and needs to be something similar to,

my ($smtp_server) = "smtp.local.site.com";

For Windows NT this is the first line in the script that needs editing. The lines above this are unimportant. The rest of the script needs no changes, although the sections enclosed by “customizable text” comments may be changed if desired.