No environment when running script on ASP page

Hi David, thanks for your reply.

The server has been booted several times without the PATH
being altered - and when executing a util located in a
directory already specified in the PATH from a
commandline from a different directory, there's not
problems.

Can it be something with the IIS metadabase or some setup
in the IIS?

Thanks,
icolaj

 >-----Original Message-----
 >IIS will only use the System PATH environment variable.
 >
 >Any changes made to the PATH environment variable
requires rebooting the
 >server for it to take effect in IIS.
 >
 >So, I can imagine that you have a server where you
changed system PATH,
 >restarted a new CMD shell, and the program would be
found in the PATH -- but
 >until you reboot the server, IIS will not see that
changed PATH value.
 >
 >--
 >//David
 >IIS
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 >"Nicolaj Rasmussen" <drlandau.DeleteThis@msn.com> wrote in message
 >news:0cc301c36bd0$de0cdb60$a401280a@phx.gbl...
 >We have a server running W2K SP3 that's having problems
 >running ASP pages. The problem seems to be that there's
 >no user environment for the user executing the ASP page
 >(I guess it is the IWAM_<server> user), so when trying to
 >do a WshShell.Exec(<command>) and start a program that's
 >in a folder contained in the PATH environment variable,
 >it cannot find anything. When running the ASP page on
 >another server, there's no problem - and when running the
 ><command> from a cmd box, the program executes just fine.
 >
 >The problem was on the server before SP3 was applied, but
 >SP3 didn't help anything. We have also uninstalled the
 >IIS and then reinstalled it + SP3 after reboot with same
 >result. And we've sync'ed the IWAM user, changed password
 >etc. - all with no luck. Tried to log on locally with the
 >IWAM account (pwd retrieved with adsutil.vbs) and it went
 >fine, but didn't know what to look for except to check
 >that PATH and other env vars was set - and they was.
 >
 >Have anyone experienced anything similar?
 >
 >Any help is highly appreciated!
 >
 >Please CC: any replies to the above email-address so I
 >know when someone replies (if any).
 >
 >Thanks a lot!
 >
 >Best regards,
 >Nicolaj
 >
 >
 >.
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 >> Stay informed about: No environment when running script on ASP page 

No. IIS metabase nor setup does not affect environment variables. Are you
sure the PATH that is modified is the System PATH and not per-User PATH...
and that you don't have some overriding PATH for the IWAM user somehow
defined on this machine but not others.

In general, it is better programming practice to make a configurable yet
absolute reference to a program for automation and NOT rely on PATH lookup.

i.e.
var utilsPath = "C:\\tools"; //Configure this somehow.
var UTIL = utilsPath + "\\" + "utility.exe";

WshShell.Run ( UTIL + " " + params );

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//David
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"Nicolaj Rasmussen" <drlandau.TakeThisOut@NOSPAMmsn.com> wrote in message
news:069e01c36ca3$f884aee0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
Hi David, thanks for your reply.

The server has been booted several times without the PATH
being altered - and when executing a util located in a
directory already specified in the PATH from a
commandline from a different directory, there's not
problems.

Can it be something with the IIS metadabase or some setup
in the IIS?

Thanks,
icolaj

 >-----Original Message-----
 >IIS will only use the System PATH environment variable.
 >
 >Any changes made to the PATH environment variable
requires rebooting the
 >server for it to take effect in IIS.
 >
 >So, I can imagine that you have a server where you
changed system PATH,
 >restarted a new CMD shell, and the program would be
found in the PATH -- but
 >until you reboot the server, IIS will not see that
changed PATH value.
 >
 >--
 >//David
 >IIS
 >This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
 >//
 >"Nicolaj Rasmussen" <drlandau.TakeThisOut@msn.com> wrote in message
 >news:0cc301c36bd0$de0cdb60$a401280a@phx.gbl...
 >We have a server running W2K SP3 that's having problems
 >running ASP pages. The problem seems to be that there's
 >no user environment for the user executing the ASP page
 >(I guess it is the IWAM_<server> user), so when trying to
 >do a WshShell.Exec(<command>) and start a program that's
 >in a folder contained in the PATH environment variable,
 >it cannot find anything. When running the ASP page on
 >another server, there's no problem - and when running the
 ><command> from a cmd box, the program executes just fine.
 >
 >The problem was on the server before SP3 was applied, but
 >SP3 didn't help anything. We have also uninstalled the
 >IIS and then reinstalled it + SP3 after reboot with same
 >result. And we've sync'ed the IWAM user, changed password
 >etc. - all with no luck. Tried to log on locally with the
 >IWAM account (pwd retrieved with adsutil.vbs) and it went
 >fine, but didn't know what to look for except to check
 >that PATH and other env vars was set - and they was.
 >
 >Have anyone experienced anything similar?
 >
 >Any help is highly appreciated!
 >
 >Please CC: any replies to the above email-address so I
 >know when someone replies (if any).
 >
 >Thanks a lot!
 >
 >Best regards,
 >Nicolaj
 >
 >
 >.
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 >> Stay informed about: No environment when running script on ASP page 

Hi again,

Sorry for the delay. I made an ASP page that prints out all the
environment variables:

<%
Dim oShell, oExec, strCmdOutput
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

Set oExec = oShell.Exec("%comspec% /c set")
strCmdOutput = oExec.StdOut.ReadAll
strCmdOutput = Replace(strCmdOutput, vbCRLF, "<br>")
Response.Write(strCmdOutput)
%>

This is the output:

ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=DB-C1
COMSPEC=C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.JS;.WS
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\WINNT
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\Default User

As you can see the PATH variable doesn't seem to be setup at all for
some reason.

When running it on a similar server (or a server that's SUPPOSED to be
alike) I get the following output:

ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=DB-B1
ComSpec=C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
DSLISTEN=SERVER
DSQUERY=SERVER
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=8
OS=Windows_NT
Os2LibPath=C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;
Path=C:\Dracar\Perl\bin;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbe
m;C:\Dracar\Util;C:\Dracar\SybaseServer\dll;C:\Dracar\SybaseServer\bin
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.VBS
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 2, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=15
PROCESSOR_REVISION=0202
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
SYBASE=C:\Dracar\SybaseServer\
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\WINNT
TEMP=C:\WINNT\TEMP
TMP=C:\WINNT\TEMP
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\Default User
windir=C:\WINNT

Something doesn't get setup, but what and where I don't know.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Nicolaj

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Since you are using wscript, you probably want to ping the wsh group: microsoft.public.scripting.wsh

Thank you. I hope this information is helpful.

Tim Coffey [MSFT]

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| Hi again,
|
| Sorry for the delay. I made an ASP page that prints out all the
| environment variables:
|
| <%
| Dim oShell, oExec, strCmdOutput
| Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
|
| Set oExec = oShell.Exec("%comspec% /c set")
| strCmdOutput = oExec.StdOut.ReadAll
| strCmdOutput = Replace(strCmdOutput, vbCRLF, "<br>")
| Response.Write(strCmdOutput)
| %>
|
| This is the output:
|
| ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
| CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
| COMPUTERNAME=DB-C1
| COMSPEC=C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
| PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.JS;.WS
| ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
| PROMPT=$P$G
| SystemDrive=C:
| SystemRoot=C:\WINNT
| USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\Default User
|
| As you can see the PATH variable doesn't seem to be setup at all for
| some reason.
|
| When running it on a similar server (or a server that's SUPPOSED to be
| alike) I get the following output:
|
| ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
| CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
| COMPUTERNAME=DB-B1
| ComSpec=C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
| DSLISTEN=SERVER
| DSQUERY=SERVER
| NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=8
| OS=Windows_NT
| Os2LibPath=C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;
| Path=C:\Dracar\Perl\bin;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbe
| m;C:\Dracar\Util;C:\Dracar\SybaseServer\dll;C:\Dracar\SybaseServer\bin
| PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.VBS
| PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
| PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 2, GenuineIntel
| PROCESSOR_LEVEL=15
| PROCESSOR_REVISION=0202
| ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
| PROMPT=$P$G
| SYBASE=C:\Dracar\SybaseServer\
| SystemDrive=C:
| SystemRoot=C:\WINNT
| TEMP=C:\WINNT\TEMP
| TMP=C:\WINNT\TEMP
| USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\Default User
| windir=C:\WINNT
|
| Something doesn't get setup, but what and where I don't know.
|
| Any suggestions?
|
| Thanks,
| Nicolaj
|
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Hi,

We only experience the problem when running ASP pages, very strange.
Everything works fine when running commands after interactive logon,
even if you logon as the IWAM user account, so it seems that something
doesn't get setup properly when running ASP pages, i.e. most of the
environment variables are missing as you can see from above.

On a similar server it works fine and we havent been able to pinpoint
whats different. Can it be a corrupted Defuakt User profile or
something? I tried copying it from the working server (doc. and
settings\default user) to the non-working server, but didn't help.

I don't know how env. vars are setup when running IIS/ASP.. Anybody?

Thanks,
Nicolaj



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Do they have similarly configured IWAM user, and same privileges (use
secpol.msc to determine the privileges held by a user)? Is one allowed to
logon locally and the other one can't? Etc.

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"Nicolaj Rasmussen" <drlandau RemoveThis @msn.com> wrote in message
news:urPb5PrcDHA.2416@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
Hi again,

Sorry for the delay. I made an ASP page that prints out all the
environment variables:

<%
Dim oShell, oExec, strCmdOutput
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

Set oExec = oShell.Exec("%comspec% /c set")
strCmdOutput = oExec.StdOut.ReadAll
strCmdOutput = Replace(strCmdOutput, vbCRLF, "<br>")
Response.Write(strCmdOutput)
%>

This is the output:

ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=DB-C1
COMSPEC=C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.JS;.WS
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\WINNT
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\Default User

As you can see the PATH variable doesn't seem to be setup at all for
some reason.

When running it on a similar server (or a server that's SUPPOSED to be
alike) I get the following output:

ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=DB-B1
ComSpec=C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
DSLISTEN=SERVER
DSQUERY=SERVER
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=8
OS=Windows_NT
Os2LibPath=C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;
Path=C:\Dracar\Perl\bin;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbe
m;C:\Dracar\Util;C:\Dracar\SybaseServer\dll;C:\Dracar\SybaseServer\bin
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.VBS
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 2, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=15
PROCESSOR_REVISION=0202
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
SYBASE=C:\Dracar\SybaseServer\
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\WINNT
TEMP=C:\WINNT\TEMP
TMP=C:\WINNT\TEMP
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\Default User
windir=C:\WINNT

Something doesn't get setup, but what and where I don't know.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Nicolaj

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I think that you have different logon privileges for the IWAM user for the
medium/high isolation applications. IIS/ASP doesn't set up the environment
at all; they are inherited from the same process creation code running on
both your working and non-working servers. Only thing I can think of being
commonly different is when users change privileges on IWAM... which you
should check.

If you are logging in as the IWAM user account, you must have modified its
password in the SAM. Have you resynchronized that password in IIS/COM+
after the change?

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"Nicolaj Rasmussen" <drlandau.TakeThisOut@msn.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

We only experience the problem when running ASP pages, very strange.
Everything works fine when running commands after interactive logon,
even if you logon as the IWAM user account, so it seems that something
doesn't get setup properly when running ASP pages, i.e. most of the
environment variables are missing as you can see from above.

On a similar server it works fine and we havent been able to pinpoint
whats different. Can it be a corrupted Defuakt User profile or
something? I tried copying it from the working server (doc. and
settings\default user) to the non-working server, but didn't help.

I don't know how env. vars are setup when running IIS/ASP.. Anybody?

Thanks,
Nicolaj



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Hi David,

Thanks for your response. Firstly, yes we have syncronized the password
with adsutil on both servers etc. so this should be ok.

I'm not quite sure of all the places to check the privs of the IWAM
account, but I have checked in User Right Assignments ("Access this
computer from the network", "Log on as a batch job" on both servers),
Component Services (Out-Of-Process Pooled Apps seems to be setup the
same on both servers), and both accounts are only members of Guests on
the local servers...

I tried logging in with both accounts (retrieved the passwords of the
IWAM accounts using adsutil.vbs), one the failing server no probs and
when runinng SET all env vars were set up (allthough this probably
doesn't prove anything). When trying to log on the server that it
actually works on (where the ASP page shows all env vars), I got an
error. Turns out the failing server runs in TS Appl. Mode and the server
that works (with all env vars) runs in TS Remote Adm. Mode. If this has
anything to say, I don't know.

Do you know of any other places I should check the rights and privs of
the IWAM account? I.e. where do I check the logon privileges for the
IWAM user for the medium/high isolation applications - is this in
Components Services?

I really appreciate your help!

Thanks,
Nicolaj

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