IIS and FastCGI/Scripting languages/Perl

This tutorial will teach you how to get IIS working with FastCGI, and Perl. We will be using FCGI::IIS. These steps should be followed in order. Further documentation on FCGI::IIS, can be found directly on CPAN. Install FCGI::IIS Strawberry Perl perl -MCPAN -e'install FCGI::IIS' ActiveState ppm install FCGI ppm install http://www.cosmicscripts.com/modules/perl/FCGI-IIS.ppd cosmicscript Additions to fcgiext.ini Add the following to the [Perl] stanza: Arguments="-MFCGI::IIS=test" QueueLength=999 MaxInstances=20 InstanceMaxRequests=500 Which should make the .ini file read something like: [Types] pl=Perl [Perl] ExePath=C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe Arguments="-MFCGI::IIS=test" QueueLength=999 MaxInstances=20 InstanceMaxRequests=500 Notice FCGI::IIS=test: this gets a test up and running. To develop or run production with FCGI::IIS, or after your test succeeds remove the FCGI::IIS. Further information can be found in FCGI::IIS docs. Arguments="-MFCGI::IIS" Restart website To restart a website: Start → Administrative Tools → IIS → Expand left panel to Websites → Right click website Stop → Right click website Start. From this point it should be easily to install Catalyst or whatever other perl framework you'd like. Footnotes Much of the information was sourced from "http://www.cosmicscripts.com/servers/fastcgi_perl.html FastCGI and Perl FastCGI with Perl on IIS 5.1, 6 CosmicScripts.com" cosmicscript http://cosmicscripts.com is a non-official ppm hosting site, hope it is still active.