PERL 5 May Cause a Dr. Watson Access Violation in Inetinfo.exe (164881)

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SYMPTOMS

When you run a PERL 5 script, you may get the following Dr. Watson error message:

Exception Access Violation (0x00000005), address 0x77e77dc9.

CAUSE

You have three or more "%s" entries after the value .pl in the following key:

   Hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\services\W3Svc\ 
   parameters\Script Map

WORKAROUND

You may use up to two "%s" entries after Perl.exe, as in .pl: REG_SZ: C:\perl\bin\perl.exe %s %s.

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After you install PERL for WIN32, you will have to edit the registry to add the script map entries under the following key:

   Hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\services\W3Svc\ 
   parameters\Script Map

The value is .pl: REG_SZ: C:\perl\bin\perl.exe %s.