----------------------------------------------------------------------- PerlDesk with IIS 6.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Install ActiveState Perl (version 5.10 recomended) into default directory C:\Perl\ Make sure you have created IIS script mapping during install 2) Install required and optional Perl modules (see Modules.txt) 3) Install MySQL and create database for perldesk. 4) Extract perldesk.zip files into C:\Inetpub\perldesk. Your should have 4 subdirectories now: C:\Inetpub\perldesk\backup C:\Inetpub\perldesk\cgi-bin C:\Inetpub\perldesk\docs C:\Inetpub\perldesk\images 5) Copy conf.cgi.dist to conf.cgi in C:\Inetpub\perldesk\cgi-bin\include. Edit MySQL DB access info ($dbhost, $dbname, $dbuser, $dbpass) if necessary. 6) Enable Perl ISAPI Extension and/or Perl CGI Extension in "Administrative Tools" -> "Internet Information Services" -> "Web service extensions" by clicking 'Allow' button. 7) Create virtual directory (with alias 'perldesk', for example) under your Website in "Internet Information Services" Manager (select New -> Virtual Directory ... under context menu for your site) and point it to C:\Inetpub\perldesk\cgi-bin. Create another virual directory 'images' under 'perldesk' virtual directory and point it to C:\Inetpub\perldesk\images. 8) Enable mapping .cgi files with perl.exe or perlis.dll. Right click 'perldesk' virtual directory, select 'Properties', click 'Configuration' button. Add new mapping for .cgi extension. There are two choices - either perl.exe CGI or perlis.dll ISAPI. for perl.exe enter into 'Executable' filed following: C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "%s" %s for perlis.dll: C:\Perl\bin\perlis.dll 9) Point your browser to http://127.0.0.1/perldesk/install.cgi and follow install procedure.