How do you run an ASP from your desktop?

[Spyder757]

I currently run Windows 98 and Office XP Developer.

I’ve just recently become interested in web design and I was wondering how I could create a web site and test it locally on my computer.

I’ve tried making ASPs but Front Page states they need to be published in order to be viewed properly. Since I don’t currently have hosting service, and I’m not willing to pay for it while I’m still in the playing around stages, I’d like to be able to make these things work locally on my machine.

What is required to do this?

Spyder757

 

[humbleprogrammer]

You need to install IIS in order to run ASP butWindows 98 doesn't support IIS. If your upgrade your operating system to Windows 2000 Pro or Windows XP Pro, you will be able to install it.

 

[Spyder757]

What is IIS if you don't mind my asking.

Spyder757

 

[Genimuse]

Internet Information Server, which is Microsoft's web server and ASP-processing engine.

 

[ChrisHirst]

PWS (Personal Web Server) is on the Windows 98 CD and does support ASP.


Chris.


Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

 

[Genimuse]

Note that Microsoft's Personal Web Server (PWS) does run on Windows 98 and does process ASP (albeit an older version). There are several sites available that explain how to install PWS, and a quick Google search for

pws asp

turns up several good ones in the first few hits (in fact the first hit is very clear).

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=pws+asp

 

[Spyder757]

Well I kind of ran into a small snag.

My lap top shipped with Win 98 2nd Edition pre installed, so I don’t actually have the Windows 98 CD.

A local business out here rents software so I went down there today and rented a copy of Windows 98. However they only had the first edition.

I installed the PWS software, got an error message about writing to the registry, but all else seemed to go smoothly.

Is there some conflict between my Front Page Extensions (remember I run Office XP Developer) and PWS?

Also how exactly is this thing suppose to work? It didn’t really come with any documtation explaining the function of it.

When I had it running I still couldn’t view ASP files, even when I had them copied into the PWS’s directory.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Spyder757

 

[Genimuse]

This site:

http://coveryourasp.com/PWS.asp

(the first hit in the link I provided earlier) both describes how to download PWS from Microsoft so you don't have to rent it and describes precisely how to install it so that it will run ASP pages (custom installation is required -- it doesn't install ASP stuff by default). It also describes how to tell it where you want your web server.

Once it's installed correctly you put the asp pages in the correct directory (by default

C:\Inetpub\wwwroot

). Then, normally anyway, you'd access them by using your browser to go to

[URL unfurl="true"]http://localhost/[/URL]

followed by the name of the page or directory you'd want to access.

 

[snowboardr]

Rent windows 98?? that has to be illegal?? Anyways everyone here is pointing you in the right direction.

But a few tips that you can discard or take in as useful info..

1. Don't use FrontPage
This software is a major headache, and if anyone tells you its great, the obviously havn't spent hours trying to get a table the way they wanted it.

2. I would highly suggest getting Macromedia Dreamweaver Ultra Dev, it will make your ASP go much faster, it color codes all your asp, and when you start typing a common function such as...

Response.

it will show you a list of everything in the Response object. So you when you type:

Response.W

and hit enter this will appear, with your cursor ready to type in something:

Response.Write("&quot

3. A pretty decent book to get you started is Instant ASP Scripts, there most likely are better ones out there, but this one is good refrence even when you get professional.


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