CGI scripts in C

[histor]

I'm in the habit of writing CGI scripts in C, rather than Perl or PHP. In the past this has been fairly straightforward, but I have recently switched to Vista and it's all gone wrong.

I have installed XAMPP without any trouble (http://localhost works fine). The problem comes when I try to execute a script. Then I get the following message :

Server error!

The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.

Error message:
couldn't create child process: 720005: script.cgi

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 500
localhost
04/12/08 14:24:31
Apache/2.2.8 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.5

Note that "script.cgi" is a .exe file that I renamed because the basic instructions stated that .cgi was the only acceptable suffix for a CGI executable.

Does anyone have any suggestions? All ideas gratefully received.

[Wiedmann]

Note that "script.cgi" is a .exe file

A *.exe file only works, if the extension is *.exe.

that .cgi was the only acceptable suffix for a CGI executable.

Just add *.exe to the CGI extensions ("AddHandler cgi-script ...") (Or put the file in the (cgi-bin dir).

[histor]

Thanks for the advice Wiedmann. It gets me a little further forward.

I placed the .exe file in c:\xampp\cgi-bin. I still get the same error, but at least I'm using the correct file now.

Server error!

The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.

Error message:
couldn't create child process: 720005: script.exe

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 500
localhost
04/13/08 11:39:19
Apache/2.2.8 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.5

I then tried modifying the AddHandler line in c:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf (I presume this is the right file) as suggested, but that didn't improve things further.

In the same file, I also tried uncommenting "ScriptInterpreterSource registry" in case looking for a non-existent shebang line was causing trouble, but that didn't help either.

[histor]

Problem solved - I switched to Abyss, which I can make work.