Can an XP Workstation host support ASP?

[Henry Stock]

The remote site that I have to use for my web site supports ASP, but not
ASP.NET, so any dynamic work that I might do has to be designed using ASP.

I tried creating a new site using the general package for Database Interface
wizard, but the pages that are created do not seem to run on my localhost
out of the box. I am wondering if I need to specify an ISAPI filter. Can
anybody advise me on this? I am running Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2 as my
development workstation. I have Visual Studio 2005, and FrontPage 2003. I
used FrontPage just to get the basic site designed more quickly, but like I
said, I need to use ASP for any dynamic content and I would like to test
stuff locally before uploading it to the remote web site.

 

[Ronx]

IIS in Windows XP Pro will run "classic" asp without any problems, "out
of the box". If you install the dot.Net framework it will run asp.NET
without problems as well (though it appears your host does not support
this).

You are accessing your pages (both in FrontPage and the browser) through
the IIS web server, using an address such as
http://localhost/webname/page.asp or http://127.0.0.1/webname/page.asp
or http://machinename/webname/page.asp ? (machinename is the name given
to your PC and can be seen in the My Computer -> Properties sheet.)

If you are doing the above, what errors are you getting?

 

[Henry Stock]

I don't exactly why, but in trying to fix this, I deleted and recreated the
virtual directory pointing to the frontpage created site and now it is
working.

I still have some questions though. I don't fully understand how frontpage
can access the database file without an ODBC connection being defined by the
administrator of the system. I can see that it has something to do with the
global.asa file, but I don't understand the operation that it is doing.

 

[Kathleen Anderson]

When you import a database into your FrontPage web, or create one in your
web site using the Save to Database form or the Database Interface Wizard,
FrontPage creates a folder called fpdb for your database, and also creates
the global.asa, which is where your database connection is. If the database
was outside your web site, you would have to create the database connection
yourself.

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