Personal Web Server comes with Microsoft's Frontpage,
and if you're using Windows 98, you can install it straight from
your Windows CD. But it's not compatible with Windows Me, and
is requires some tweaking before it will happily run Perl scripts.
We don't recommend using it for these tutorials, but running two
Web servers on one machine can cause problems.
If you're hooked on Frontpage and don't want to uninstall PWS,
our setup program will give you the choice of letting it make
some changes to your registry that will enable Perl to work on
PWS. But, unlike Xitami, PWS won't automatically recognise Perl
scripts for what they are. Instead, it relies on the file extension
of the script. These must be either '.pl' or '.cgi'.
Many of the scripts you download won't use these extensions,
so you'll have to change not only the file name, but any references
to the files in your HTML and even within the Perl script itself.
Also be sure to consult both ActivePerl's documentation and PWS's
online help for instructions on setting up your CGI bin.