Hi support,

I am new to EE and have installed 1.6 as clean as possible on a windows server of my hosting company. I can access the control panel and add new posts. However, wWhen I try to make new templates and hit in the control panel, I get the above mentioned cgi error.
This also happens when I click on the default About and other links.

The troubleshooting section suggested to set the “Generate HTTP Page headers” to “No”, which I did, but that did not help.

what should I do?

Regards,
Durk Gardenier

Do you have a link to where we can see this happening on the public side?

http://www.durkgardenier.nl/nieuws/

click on “about” for inst.

Well, this is the first time I’ve seen this symptom for this particular issue, however see this kb entry - adding the forced query string made the page work, so that should work for you.

it works.
thanks for your help Lisa

My pleasure, glad it worked!

I’ve just seen the same thing on IIS6, PHP 5.2.3 (after transferring the blog from a Linux server). I was able to fix it with the KB entry you recommended.

Could this be related to IIS6 not setting the directory as expected?

Brian, welcome to the EE family.

The reason you need to add a question mark to index.php is that IIS doesn’t support path_info.

Thanks for the welcome.

The suggested KB article fix works for most areas but clicking on recent comments still seems to produce the same error, unless I manually add a ? to the Comment Page URL setting.

Is this intentional or should the ? be added automatically? Do I need to add ? to any other URL settings?

You’re referring to the comment url set in ‘Admin- Weblog Admin- Weblog Management’ on a per weblog basis- right?  Yes- the paths set there (weblog, comment, search, etc.) require the full base url.  EE isn’t generating them based on the default settings as they’re hard coded by the user to be whatever you want them to be.  So- anywhere you have the full url as a setting, you’d want to include the ?- about the only other place I can think of off hand might be a gallery setting.

Many thanks for the confirmation.