Question

IIS 5.1 and Delphi 7 - "The specified module could not be found."

Asked by: werehamster-

I am using default folders for everything.

I created a script in Delphi 7 and placed the resulting DLL in:
C:\Inetpub\Scripts

Also, any tips on how to load and unload the modules so I don't have to restart my computer would be helpful once I get this working...


This is the HTML code I used...

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
  <HEAD>
    <TITLE> Project Test 1 </TITLE>
  </HEAD>
  <BODY>

  <FORM METHOD="post" ACTION="http://localhost:81/scripts/Project1.dll">
    Name:
      <input type="text" name="NAME_FIELD"><br>
    SurName:
      <input type="text" name="SURNAME_FIELD"><br>

    <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"><br> <input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset"> </FORM>

  </BODY>
</HTML>


unit test1;

interface

uses
  SysUtils, Classes, HTTPApp;

type
  TWebModule1 = class(TWebModule)
    procedure WebModule1WebActionItem1Action(Sender: TObject;
      Request: TWebRequest; Response: TWebResponse; var Handled: Boolean);
  private
    { Private declarations }
  public
    { Public declarations }
  end;

var
  WebModule1: TWebModule1;

implementation

{$R *.dfm}

procedure TWebModule1.WebModule1WebActionItem1Action(Sender: TObject;
  Request: TWebRequest; Response: TWebResponse; var Handled: Boolean);
begin
  Response.Content := 'Hello';
end;

end.

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Answers

 

by: ewildePosted on 2006-04-15 at 22:08:06ID: 16462867

it might be a prmissions problem. go to IIS Directory Security and change the account used for anonymous access to the guest account.

Goodluck,
ewilde.

 

by: geobulPosted on 2006-04-16 at 03:00:57ID: 16463609

Hi,

Prhaps you have to enable executables to be launched by IIS also. As far as I remember the default was 'scripts only'. Open your IIS administrative console, select the web site's properties, go to 'Home Directory' tab and change 'Execute Permissions' to 'Scripts and Executables'.

Regards, Geo

 

by: dygjPosted on 2006-04-16 at 07:17:05ID: 16464310

Unloading your module:
rigth click on the scripts folder in IS5 and select properties. Click the unload button.

Permission execute (and scripts),

 

by: werehamster-Posted on 2006-04-16 at 19:27:55ID: 16466734

ewilde: I do not have a guest account on this computer.  It is set to my main account, IUSR_WEREHAMSTER, which has full administrative rights.  I've tried it with guest and administrator with no luck.  Administrator did give a different error because it did not have a password.

geobul: I have it already set to "Scripts and Executables".

I've basically already tried all the basics I could think of.  Need to think out of the box for this one.  :)

 

by: Imthiyaz_phPosted on 2006-04-17 at 06:38:51ID: 16468916

Plz check whether the default property of that action "WebActionItem1" is set to true, since you havnt specified any additional path after the dll name (in POST method).

 

by: werehamster-Posted on 2006-04-17 at 18:16:04ID: 16474145

Imthiyaz_ph: I've tried it both ways; with a path and using a default.  Still no good.

I've recently used DEPENDS.EXE to see if it was missing any dependencies.  Really didn't help much.  I guess my next step is to see if I can find some other DLL to try to see if it's IIS or delphi.

 

by: Imthiyaz_phPosted on 2006-04-17 at 22:51:24ID: 16475320

i think you have put the dll in the wrong folder. What i used to do was create a "scripts" folder under "wwwroot" folder, assign the necessary permissions and put the dll inside that folder.

Even in your case, the path in the post method is referring to a folder inside the wwwroot.

regards
Imthiyaz

 

by: Imthiyaz_phPosted on 2006-04-17 at 23:23:24ID: 16475434

Also check the following answer, its says to unregister and register the system dlls:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Languages/Dot_Net/ASP_DOT_NET/Q_21462035.html

 

by: Imthiyaz_phPosted on 2006-04-17 at 23:37:03ID: 16475488

i m sorry, i think i hv made a mistake regarding the scripts folder. I used to work with multiple sites, so i had to create script folder for each site. And also by default, iis creates a virtual directory for the scripts folder.

 

by: werehamster-Posted on 2006-04-18 at 00:24:31ID: 16475650

I figured it out.  Scripting services was not installed.  4 days of headaches by a simple windows component install that apparently wasn't installed by default.

 

by: GranModPosted on 2006-06-25 at 01:48:39ID: 16977987

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