CGI Error Virtual Server Administration

Pirooz Javan

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Jan 6, 2006, 7:28:05 PM1/6/06

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My VS R2 Administration keeps getting the following error: I've checked all
IIS settings and uninstalled and reinstalled VS. Nothing has worked. Thanks
in advance for any help.

CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of
HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:

Qythyx

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Jan 15, 2006, 11:31:04 PM1/15/06

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I don't have a solution, but I'm seeing this same error. Everything was
working fine and then the error suddenly appeared. I've tried completely
un-installing and reinstalling both Virtual Server and IIS, but nothing seems
to help.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Qythyx

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Jan 15, 2006, 11:40:03 PM1/15/06

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Here's a bit more info:

From the IIS logs I'm getting this:
04:36:27 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe 401
04:36:27 127.0.0.1 GET /VirtualServer/VSWebApp.exe 502
04:36:27 127.0.0.1 GET /favicon.ico 404
04:36:27 127.0.0.1 GET /favicon.ico 404

I'm not an IIS expert, how can I log more details? Specifically I'd like to
see exactly what the output from VSWebApp.exe?view=1 is.

David Wang [Msft]

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Jan 19, 2006, 10:11:20 PM1/19/06

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In general, I am against reinstalling as a troubleshooting step, especially
if you do not start from the log file and work backwards in a passive
manner. This blog entry goes through why:
http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/archive/2005/12/31/HOWTO_Basics_of_IIS6_Troubleshooting.aspx

Your IIS log file has been configured to not log everything (such as
substatus and win32 error codes, useful for troubleshooting). It is
configured by default, so I believe that someone has gone through and
hand-customized IIS and possibly the entire server.

Most of the time that I see VS2005 users having problems accessing the admin
website it is because their server installation is non-default and had been
"Locked down" somehow such that various permissions get revoked. What's
missing is completely arbitrary since it depends on the "Lock down"
procedure, so it ultimately comes down to a game where you reverse engineer
what was unconsciously done to yourself.

One of the causes of 502 that I can think of is if you RDP to the server and
then attempt to browse the admin website (with Integrated authentication
against a CGI like VSWebApp.exe) - there is a limitation in Windows Server
2003 which prevents that from working.

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DrillSergeant

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Jan 20, 2006, 9:37:02 AM1/20/06

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I had this error too. I'm working on a Windows XP SP 2 With all upgrades and
patches installed.

I have 4 GB internal memory. After I've disabled Virtual Memory everything
appears to work fine for me.

It makes sense that this has something to do with it, because if I connected
to the VS website from another workstation I never got the error message
mentioned.

Just after installation it worked though, so I'm not sure how you can
replicate this error.

Kind regards,

Rogier de Jong

David Wang [Msft]

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Jan 20, 2006, 8:25:21 PM1/20/06

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It is not clear to me how disabling Virtual Memory has anything to do with
ability to connect to the VS website...

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Jacob W

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Jan 25, 2006, 5:05:20 PM1/25/06

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Hi, try change from "Integrated authentication" to "Basic
authentication" on the VirtualServer virtual directory in IIS.

Regards

Jacob W.

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KJK

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Jul 10, 2006, 8:53:39 PM7/10/06

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This works

Hi, try change from "Integrated authentication" to "Basic
authentication" on the VirtualServer virtual directory in IIS.

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ser...@radekfischer.cz

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Oct 27, 2006, 5:31:35 PM10/27/06

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It works for me to change Authentication method from Integrated to Basic.
Thanks!

Vandoom

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Mar 20, 2007, 6:07:07 PM3/20/07

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I had the same error "CGI Error ...".
I was accessing my XP box (on which virtual server is running) using Remote Deskop (RDP).

I found that after booting my XP box up if I access the page from the XP box locally (not use RDP) then it loads fine and subsequent accesses (including over RDP) then work fine.

Voytek Tomas

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Aug 30, 2007, 5:42:47 PM8/30/07

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I can get to the Admin page if I run IE as Administrator. Just opening IE as a user that's in the admin group gives the CGI error. This is XP Pro not on a domain.

Vrijesh Kothari

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Aug 31, 2007, 3:01:28 AM8/31/07

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Are you able to stop the Virtual server service successfully and then
restart?

Thanks
Vrijesh
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Randy

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Sep 30, 2008, 10:19:44 AM9/30/08

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Changing from integrated authentication to basic also worked for me. Thanks to whoever came up with this solution.