I am looking for the definitive setup for WAA ver 1.80 on Windows 2003 
Server using IIS ver 6.0.
In IIS I have "allowed" all unknown CGI Extensions.
I am in need of preferred file extension for WAA1GATE gateway and its 
install location, the install location for WAA1GATE.CFG, and special 
tweaking to IIS, in short, a simple recipe of "do this, do that, you're 
done, it will work".
Coming from a fully functional installation on Win 2000 Server, but I have 
problems on the Win 2003.

| I am looking for the definitive setup for WAA ver 1.80 on Windows 2003
| Server using IIS ver 6.0.

Wouldn't it be easier to just use Apache instead of IIS?
I found Apache to be easier to set up, but haven't tried it on Wndows 2003
server yet. This is going to be my next project, to set up Apache on Windows
2003 server as a service.

BTW, anybody knows how to set up WAA as a service?

Regards,
Ben

Ben,

>| I am looking for the definitive setup for WAA ver 1.80 on Windows 2003
>| Server using IIS ver 6.0.
> 
> Wouldn't it be easier to just use Apache instead of IIS?
> I found Apache to be easier to set up, but haven't tried it on Wndows 2003
> server yet. This is going to be my next project, to set up Apache on Windows
> 2003 server as a service.

I use Apache 2.x on W2K3 without problems.

> BTW, anybody knows how to set up WAA as a service?

WAA cannot be run properly as a service, because the user is required to
have access to the WAA console.  You could try and use a 3PP tool which can
run 'normal' apps as services, but you need to be able to configure it so
it displays the WAA console.  If you don't then the only way to stop WAA
once it is running is to crash it.

Are you going to the devcon?  I may be able to show you something that that
will help you.

Regards,

Phil Ide

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|
| Are you going to the devcon?  I may be able to show you something that
that
| will help you.
|

Unfortunately not, it is just way too expensive to get there from the
Southern tip of Africa!
How about you come and visit us here in South Africa? Beer, braai (barbeque)
and plenty of sun awaits you.
We will get all of about 10 South African users of xBase++ together if you
get here!

Regards,
Ben

Ben,

> How about you come and visit us here in South Africa? Beer, braai (barbeque)
> and plenty of sun awaits you.

Tempting... 

Regards,

Phil Ide

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Eschew Obfuscation . . .

Well

 If you come to Juarez Mexico, Count only with me.

But, With a Good Tequila on my hand.

Best Regards
Osvaldo Ramirez


"Phil Ide" <phil@idep.org.uk> wrote in message
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> Ben,
>
> > How about you come and visit us here in South Africa? Beer, braai
(barbeque)
> > and plenty of sun awaits you.
>
> Tempting... 
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Phil Ide
>
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> Eschew Obfuscation . . .

It would be easier if I were independently wealthy, but I'm not and IIS is 
the deal. Or maybe WAA does not work with Win 2003 Server.  Hannes, what say 
you?  Is WAA obsoleted by Win 2003 Server?  Any kind of response will be 
appreciated.  I would prefer to not chase my tail looking for the impossible 
solution.
Bruce Anderson

"Ben Bodenstein" <benbod@telkomsa.net> wrote in message 
news:JGtoRNJtEHA.6380@S15147418...
>| I am looking for the definitive setup for WAA ver 1.80 on Windows 2003
> | Server using IIS ver 6.0.
>
> Wouldn't it be easier to just use Apache instead of IIS?
> I found Apache to be easier to set up, but haven't tried it on Wndows 2003
> server yet. This is going to be my next project, to set up Apache on 
> Windows
> 2003 server as a service.
>
> BTW, anybody knows how to set up WAA as a service?
>
> Regards,
> Ben
>
>

Bruce,

> It would be easier if I were independently wealthy, but I'm not and IIS is 
> the deal. Or maybe WAA does not work with Win 2003 Server.  Hannes, what say 
> you?  Is WAA obsoleted by Win 2003 Server?  Any kind of response will be 
> appreciated.  I would prefer to not chase my tail looking for the impossible 
> solution.
> Bruce Anderson

Apache is free!

(watch out for wrapping)
http://apache.mirror.positive-internet.com/httpd/binaries/win32/apache_2.0.52-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi

Regards,

Phil Ide

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If at first you don't succeed, well...darn.

Bruce,

I just tried to send you a private email, but got an access denied message.
Is the address you used on the NG valid?

Regards,

Phil Ide

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Will the information superhighway have any rest stops?

Hi Bruce!

Take a look at my posting for "waa1gate.exe sometimes runs several..."of 
10/28/2004

No "socket" errors since I took Vladimir's advice and
change 1024 to 1020!  I know you had same problem.
Also, on that posting, you will see what now works GREAT for me on Apache 
1.3 and Win 2003 server.
After all those wasted hours and nasty patches...... 

Richard


"Bruce Anderson" <banderson@graphical-db.com> wrote in message 
news:Lv2KhgdtEHA.8060@S15147418...
> It would be easier if I were independently wealthy, but I'm not and IIS is 
> the deal. Or maybe WAA does not work with Win 2003 Server.  Hannes, what 
> say you?  Is WAA obsoleted by Win 2003 Server?  Any kind of response will 
> be appreciated.  I would prefer to not chase my tail looking for the 
> impossible solution.
> Bruce Anderson
>
> "Ben Bodenstein" <benbod@telkomsa.net> wrote in message 
> news:JGtoRNJtEHA.6380@S15147418...
>>| I am looking for the definitive setup for WAA ver 1.80 on Windows 2003
>> | Server using IIS ver 6.0.
>>
>> Wouldn't it be easier to just use Apache instead of IIS?
>> I found Apache to be easier to set up, but haven't tried it on Wndows 
>> 2003
>> server yet. This is going to be my next project, to set up Apache on 
>> Windows
>> 2003 server as a service.
>>
>> BTW, anybody knows how to set up WAA as a service?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ben
>>
>>
>
>

Can anyone help this poor boy see the flaw in his WAA Windows 2003 Server 
setup?  On Windows 2000 Server this works, but I must be overlooking an 
obvious error.

This is the error message on the IE6 client when trying to connect to the 
website.

   "WAA1GATE cannot establish connection to WAA1SRV : (10061)Unknown error "

This is the setup on the server:

   c:\alaska\waa1w32\server\WAA1SRV.EXE

   c:\windows\system32\WAA1GATE.CFG

   c:\inetpub\wwwroot\cgi-bin\WAA1GATE.ISA

   WAA1SRV.EXE is running.

   WAA1GATE.CFG assigns port 1024 to WAA1SRV.EXE

   netstat shows WAA1SRV.EXE is LISTENING to port 1024

   path=c:\alaska\waa1w32\server

   IIS has "All Unknown CGI Extensions" as status:Allowed

Sorry, correction, once I tried accessing the website from a "typical" 
client rather than from inside my network, I get a "404 - The page cannot be 
found" error when I POST a form to "cgi-bin\waa1gate.isa". WAA1SRV.log is 
not showing any activity.  Something is not connecting, but I don't know 
what.  Any suggestions, please?


"Bruce Anderson" <banderson@graphical-db.com> wrote in message 
news:OR4I6betEHA.6380@S15147418...
> Can anyone help this poor boy see the flaw in his WAA Windows 2003 Server 
> setup?  On Windows 2000 Server this works, but I must be overlooking an 
> obvious error.
>
> This is the error message on the IE6 client when trying to connect to the 
> website.
>
>   "WAA1GATE cannot establish connection to WAA1SRV : (10061)Unknown error 
> "
>
> This is the setup on the server:
>
>   c:\alaska\waa1w32\server\WAA1SRV.EXE
>
>   c:\windows\system32\WAA1GATE.CFG
>
>   c:\inetpub\wwwroot\cgi-bin\WAA1GATE.ISA
>
>   WAA1SRV.EXE is running.
>
>   WAA1GATE.CFG assigns port 1024 to WAA1SRV.EXE
>
>   netstat shows WAA1SRV.EXE is LISTENING to port 1024
>
>   path=c:\alaska\waa1w32\server
>
>   IIS has "All Unknown CGI Extensions" as status:Allowed
>
>

Bruce,

> Sorry, correction, once I tried accessing the website from a "typical" 
> client rather than from inside my network, I get a "404 - The page cannot be 
> found" error when I POST a form to "cgi-bin\waa1gate.isa". WAA1SRV.log is 
> not showing any activity.  Something is not connecting, but I don't know 
> what.  Any suggestions, please?

Possibilities:

1.  Rights issue
2.  URL should be /cgi-bin/waa1gate.isa not /cgi-bin\waa1gate.isa
3.  Local (software) firewalling issue?
4.  .isa not a recognised file type? (try renaming to .dll)

Just guessing, I don't use IIS.

Regards,

Phil Ide

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World's greatest Gif collector.

Thanks for the thoughts.
Rights issue: I have other, non-WAA websites on this same server and they 
are working.  Also, I get the problem website's initial page that has the 
form. It is only when I submit the form that it breaks.
URL:  My typo in this news post.  The code is OK.  I am moving a fully 
functional app from a Win 2000 server to a Win 2003 server.
Firewall:  Not the problem.  Both old and new servers are on the same LAN 
behind a common firewall.
ISA:  I will try this rename in a test, but there is so much to change if 
this is the problem.  Also, I did set that web extension thing to allow any 
extension as Vladimir Iahnenco suggested on 08/11/2004, but maybe there is 
more to this operation than flipping a switch.

I am starting to believe WAA does not work on Win 2003 Server.  Nobody has 
yet stepped forward with a success story.  Nobody in Alaska has ever made 
any comment/update to the install of WAA on Win 2003 Server, the world's 
overwhelmingly dominant OS company's official current product.  If so, WAA 
is d-e-a-d.

Bruce,

> Firewall:  Not the problem.  Both old and new servers are on the same LAN 
> behind a common firewall.

I was thinking more of a the firewalling features of W2K3.

> I am starting to believe WAA does not work on Win 2003 Server.  Nobody has 
> yet stepped forward with a success story.  Nobody in Alaska has ever made 
> any comment/update to the install of WAA on Win 2003 Server, the world's 
> overwhelmingly dominant OS company's official current product.  If so, WAA 
> is d-e-a-d.

I had WAA running on a W2K3 server, but moved it to a W2K because we were
required to seperate our web- and data-servers.

However, I can assure you that WAA is NOT dead.  I'll run some tests on
W2K3 later today (Apache server) and let you know what happens.

Regards,

Phil Ide

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Speed costs money. How fast do you want to go?

Bruce,

> However, I can assure you that WAA is NOT dead.  I'll run some tests on
> W2K3 later today (Apache server) and let you know what happens.

I just ran WAA up on th W2K3 server without problems.  I ran a few tests on
one of our main applications using an intranet test site address, and
everything went ok.

Regards,

Phil Ide

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You threw out my WHAT?

Bruce Anderson wrote:

> I am starting to believe WAA does not work on Win 2003 Server.  Nobody has 
> yet stepped forward with a success story.  Nobody in Alaska has ever made 
> any comment/update to the install of WAA on Win 2003 Server

AFAIK, the current Alaska WAA Website (knowledgebase et.) ist running Win
2003 Server. So maybe sending an email to Alaska support could help.

Thomas Braun

Hi Bruce,
Did you try waa1gate.exe.  If it doesn't work, you may send me waa and
waa1gate cfg files along with IIS tree snapshots for cgi-bin and your app
directory properties.
Check in waa1gate.cfg if hostname = your computer name
Try to switch both waa and waa1gate to another port, I had an issue when the
port was busy.
Check if scripts and executables allowed both in cgi-bin and your app
folders
--
Regards,

Vladimir


"Bruce Anderson" <banderson@graphical-db.com> wrote in message
news:OR4I6betEHA.6380@S15147418...
> Can anyone help this poor boy see the flaw in his WAA Windows 2003 Server
> setup?  On Windows 2000 Server this works, but I must be overlooking an
> obvious error.
>
> This is the error message on the IE6 client when trying to connect to the
> website.
>
>    "WAA1GATE cannot establish connection to WAA1SRV : (10061)Unknown error
"
>
> This is the setup on the server:
>
>    c:\alaska\waa1w32\server\WAA1SRV.EXE
>
>    c:\windows\system32\WAA1GATE.CFG
>
>    c:\inetpub\wwwroot\cgi-bin\WAA1GATE.ISA
>
>    WAA1SRV.EXE is running.
>
>    WAA1GATE.CFG assigns port 1024 to WAA1SRV.EXE
>
>    netstat shows WAA1SRV.EXE is LISTENING to port 1024
>
>    path=c:\alaska\waa1w32\server
>
>    IIS has "All Unknown CGI Extensions" as status:Allowed
>
>

Kind savants,
The attachment is a zipped MSWord doc with screen shots of all items I can 
think of that have to do with putting a WAA website onto a Windows 2003 
Server IIS 6.0.  It isn't working.  I don't know why.  It works just fine on 
W2000 IIS 5.0.  There has to be "one more thing" that those of you who have 
truly made WAA work on W2003 are doing.  I have run out of airspeed, 
altitude, and ideas all at the same time.  Have any of you any suggestions, 
insights, etc?
Thanks
Bruce Anderson 

Bruce,
I do hope it is that easy as it seems to me.
I used to have a slightly different <FORM...>-line in my index.html
I used WAA together with Apache, but my action-tag was
ACTION="/cgi-bin/waa1gate.exe" and not
ACTION="cgi-bin/waa1gate.exe"

HTH,
Martin

Bruce,

I have WAA working correctly on a Windows Server 2003 OS.

I use the name WAA1GATE.ISA, not WAA1GATE.EXE.
I also have "All Unknown ISAPI Extensions"-Allowed and "All Unknown CGI 
Extensions"-Prohibited.

Mike Wheat


"Bruce Anderson" <banderson@graphical-db.com> wrote in message 
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> Kind savants,
> The attachment is a zipped MSWord doc with screen shots of all items I can 
> think of that have to do with putting a WAA website onto a Windows 2003 
> Server IIS 6.0.  It isn't working.  I don't know why.  It works just fine 
> on W2000 IIS 5.0.  There has to be "one more thing" that those of you who 
> have truly made WAA work on W2003 are doing.  I have run out of airspeed, 
> altitude, and ideas all at the same time.  Have any of you any 
> suggestions, insights, etc?
> Thanks
> Bruce Anderson
>
>

Bruce,

I also have CGI-BIN set up as a virtual directory.
I don't know if this matters.

Mike Wheat


"Bruce Anderson" <banderson@graphical-db.com> wrote in message 
news:pMnHIdDuEHA.7820@S15147418...
> Kind savants,
> The attachment is a zipped MSWord doc with screen shots of all items I can 
> think of that have to do with putting a WAA website onto a Windows 2003 
> Server IIS 6.0.  It isn't working.  I don't know why.  It works just fine 
> on W2000 IIS 5.0.  There has to be "one more thing" that those of you who 
> have truly made WAA work on W2003 are doing.  I have run out of airspeed, 
> altitude, and ideas all at the same time.  Have any of you any 
> suggestions, insights, etc?
> Thanks
> Bruce Anderson
>
>