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HTML and ASP love story 1

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Chipsman

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Hello everybody,

I am new on this great site, and I'm hoping to find some help here.

I am designing a big website and for the first time I am using ASP pages. My problem is that it doesn't work when I make a link from a HTML page to an ASP page.

What I don't understand is that it's just a simple link from one page to an other... Can you help me? I'm sure that it shouldn't be more complicated than that...

In Brief:
I create a new folder, using Dreamweaver MX I create an HTML page called "Index.htm", then an ASP page called "Lasttesting.asp". Then I make a link from the first page to the second. I test it, the "Index.htm" opens fine, I click on the link and I get this:

============================================
The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

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A name was started with an invalid character. Error processing resource 'file:///C:/Inetpub/
<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
-^


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The thing is that if I test the ASP page alone, it works fine. Therefore I think that I set up the IIS correctly.

What I mean is that HTML pages display fine, ASP pages display fine as well. It's when I link one to the other that it doesn't work.

Thanks
 
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Sure.

Index.htm

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "<html xmlns="<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

<body>

<a href="TestingPage.asp">testingpage</a>

</body>
</html>
===================================================

You see? it's just a HTML page with a link to an ASP one.

Someone suggested that I change the path in IE like this:

Instead of C:/Inetpub/typing:
In that case when I click on the link it opens the ASP page and it works! Strange right?

To summarize, I can't test my site with Dreamweaver, but I can test it if I type the path myself in IE.

Why have I accepted that job??
 
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Looks like DW setup for the site may be wrong. Check in your site setup for Testing Server to see it's set correctly to your local server

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can i see the ASP code? if you declare the document with a <?xml> tag then the tags must be strictly closed etc...

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Sure Vbkris

Here is the ASP code. I am using a database in it, with server behavior and all:


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<!--#include file="Connections/myContacts.asp" -->
<%
var rsContacts = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset");
rsContacts.ActiveConnection = MM_myContacts_STRING;
rsContacts.Source = "SELECT * FROM Contacts";
rsContacts.CursorType = 0;
rsContacts.CursorLocation = 2;
rsContacts.LockType = 1;
rsContacts.Open();
var rsContacts_numRows = 0;
%>
<%
var Repeat1__numRows = -1;
var Repeat1__index = 0;
rsContacts_numRows += Repeat1__numRows;
%>
<html xmlns="<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

<body>
<% while ((Repeat1__numRows-- != 0) && (!rsContacts.EOF)) { %>
<p>Testing... <%=(rsContacts.Fields.Item("FirstName").Value)%> </p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><%=(rsContacts.Fields.Item("MiddleName").Value)%> <%=(rsContacts.Fields.Item("LastName").Value)%><%=(rsContacts.Fields.Item("Suffix").Value)%><%=(rsContacts.Fields.Item("Company").Value)%><%=(rsContacts.Fields.Item("Department").Value)%></p>
<%
Repeat1__index++;
rsContacts.MoveNext();
}
%>
</body>
</html>
<%
rsContacts.Close();
%>
================================================

Does this help?
Thanks
 
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how are you calling the ASP file? ie what appears in the address bar when the asp page is called???

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then the page is not run as an asp page at all!!! ASP pages must be run from a server like IIS or PWS, the bar will look like this:

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Yea it works now, this is weird, why doesn't it work when I test it with DW then?

Thanks vbkris ;-)
 
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because you have the test server details set up wrong. As vbkris has said make sure your remote and test server point at whatever your site is called)

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Also, you have the default server language set incorrectly in the line "<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>" it is set to JAVASCRIPT. It should be set to VbScript or VB.net or C#.


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Thanks guys.

TRC thanks but no that doesn't appear to be the problem.
 
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