Thread: SetEnv equivalent in IIS

Last post 10-31-2007 3:53 PM by mvolo. 1 replies.

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10-30-2007, 6:01 AM

jonban
Joined on 10-30-2007, 9:43 AM
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SetEnv equivalent in IIS

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I'm trying to set up a CGI based application (MapServer WMS), which only came with instructions on how to set it up on Apache and I'm having a hard time transposing those guidelines to IIS6.

Basically, I need to create a Virtual Directory that redirect to a CGI binary while passing two environment variables to the binary. In Apache, you would place the snippet below in your httpd.conf, but in IIS, I have no idea how to set those environment variables so they would only affect the Virtual Directory. Setting the variables as system envirnoment variables works for the WMS part but unfortunately has unwanted side-effects (eg. unability to use multiple mapfiles)

Alias /ogc/wms /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mapserv
  <Location /xx/wms>
     SetHandler cgi-script
     SetEnv MS_MAPFILE_PATTERN "^/var/www/wms/xx/xx.map$"
     SetEnv MS_MAPFILE /var/www/wms/xx/xx.map
</Location>

10-31-2007, 3:53 PM In reply to

mvolo
Joined on 09-17-2003, 1:48 PM
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Re: SetEnv equivalent in IIS

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Hi Jon,

Unfortunately I dont believe there is a way to inject custom environment variables into a CGI process. On IIS7, you can create custom server variables and those will be passed to the CGI, so you an pick them up in the process (if you own the code) and set them. You cant do that on IIS6.

Thanks,

Mike Volodarsky

Program Manager
IIS Core Server
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