Hi All
I've got two VB6 exes running as CGI on IIS6 W2k3 server, triggered from an asp page. Now when I run them under IIS5 (W2k) theres no problem, however we are transferring to a new box and therefore I need to get them working and its driving me mad!
Basically there are two exe's DataCheck1.exe and DataCheck2.exe. The user clicks a button on an asp page which dictates which one to run. Onclick for the button flags a hidden field and submits the page. Based on whats in the hidden field when the page reloads theres an "if statement" at the top of the page which does a response.redirect to the appropriate exe.
The problem is that regardless of what I seem to do the page only *ever* runs Datacheck2.exe. The annoying thing is that if I view the properties of the page generated it will say http://localhost/datacheck
To prove this I removed DataCheck2.exe and then told the page to run DataCheck1; the page errors saying it cant find the file to run. Put it back and it runs through but using DataCheck2.exe.
Hope someone can help before I end up in a padded cell!!
Cheers
Rob
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Hi Ken
I just use response.redirect to run from ASP page e.g. response.redirect "../scripts/datacheck1.exe
Annoying thing with this is that it runs fine on the old box ... didnt know if it was some quirk of 2003 ./ IIS 6?
Cheers
Rob
What about if you type in the URL box of your browser: www.somesite.com/scripts/d
What is in your access log, datacheck1 or datacheck2?
That is very strange. Do you have some kind of log file? Write to a text file before you do anything and then run your program. Hopefully that can shred some line as what going on with the program.
If that doesn't help, try get ProcessMonitor. Google and download it. It a software that can track all the event in the file system (as well as many other stuff). Powerful but does eat up resource. So it is not a good idea to run it for a long time. Run it just before you evoke your program. Then once your program is finish, export the report from ProcessMonitor and terminate it
Note that for best reading purposes, turn off all the other events that you dont' want to view before export the report.
Hi Adam
It shows the one I've asked it to run but I know its running the other because if I rename the other one and try it errors
e.g. run "www.somesite.com/scripts/
Cheers
Rob
Can you tell which program ran, either from it's output, or something it does? Or is the error when datacheck2.exe is missing the only reason you believe it is running that? Does it otherwise appear that datacheck1.exe is being executed?
copy datacheck1.exe to datacheck1_test.exe
copy datacheck2.exe to datacheck2_test.exe
delete both datacheck1.exe and datacheck2.exe
Don't do a rename, do a copy and then delete.
Try accessing both through your web server. What are the log files showing? What appears to be running?
Just as an update; I've reran again to doubel check and the IIS logs are definately showing the one i "think" I'm running and not the one thats actually running.
Also I've logged a call with our new hosting guys so I'll see if any of them can shed any light. Many thanks for the suggestions to date.
Cheers
Rob
Hi Adam
No i can tell which ones running as i've popped some text in the header that the program generates basically just says "data1" or "data2" on the outputted page so I can see. The file rename was more of a "double" check than anything to try and confirm i wasnt going mad! :-)
I've also tried the copy / rename / delete option previously. The log file always shows as running the "renamed" file (i.e. datacheck1_test.exe) but still runs datacheck2. However if I then rename datacheck2 i get the "cant find page" error regardless of what i've renamed datacheck1 to.
Cheers
Rob
I said>>So, for any executable request in this directory, it always runs datacheck2.exe..
You said>>Yep...I've even moved them out to seperate folders ... and still runs datacheck2.
So, for any executable request, no matter what the path to it is, it always runs datacheck2.exe?
Can you create an executable that just displays all of the environment variables (after a proper http header), and call it datacheck2.exe. Then call it through your web-server, then post here the values of all those vars.
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by: ken_thaiPosted on 2009-03-23 at 17:50:18ID: 23963791
Have you check the place where you dictate which exe to call? And the batch file or wherever you tell the system to run which exe.
How did you call them from the ASP file in the first place?