basic asp things

[W8 4me]

I have looked at a few ASP tutorials, and they tell me how to display the date in several ways etc etc.....one key thing I need to know, that they do not tell me, is how to create, save, view and edit my ASP files. Like....what program do I use to make ASP files? I own Dreamweaver 4, Dreamweaver 4 Ultra Dev and Dreamweaver MX. Each time I try to open an ASP file in IE, it keeps opening in Dreamweaver 4.

HELP!!!

[Ribeyed]

hi,
ok your missing one thing..........a web server.

ASP pages are server side therefore they need a web server to process them before sending the results in HTML format to the browser.

Because of this you can't just double click and open and asp page directly into the browser.

Windows 2000 or Windows XP Pro come with a web server called IIS, if you have either of these OS installed then you can put your windows disk in and install from the addon components.

Once this installed you need to do very slight configurations to the web server to set it up for your self.

IIS will create a folder on you c:

C:\Inetpub\wwwroot

This is where you store everything for your web site e.g. pages and images.

once this is configured you can now view your asp pages in the browers using a few different ways:

http://youripaddress/page1.asp

or

http://localhost/page1.asp

either will work fine

hope this helps

[W8 4me]

Can I download IIS separately and will it work with Windows 98 SE?

[Ribeyed]

hi,
like David has said yes PWS and yes it works on 98SE, think you need NT option pack 4 for windows 98SE, but i would search miscrosft for Personal Web Server.

[smcoxon]

Hi W8 4me,

I have PWS running on my Windows 98 SE system and it works fine. You can install it from your Windows system CD in \add-ons\pws\setup.exe. However, there is a problem with the Transaction Server install, which can be resolved by downloading a file and following a install procedure detailed on the Microsoft web site.

See my posts (smcoxon) on PWS running slow, dated 7 January 2003.