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jayconrad
Starting Member
Malaysia
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 Posted - 10 April 2001 : 11:00:36
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I run Win 98 and use Personal Web Server to simulate my desktop as a server. I tried going to setup.asp (using IE 5.5) but it kept asking me to download the file. I suppose my PWS does not support ASP?
One more question. I am quite new to ASP.
When I open up the Snitz asp files, I noticed that it does not include <html>, <body> tags. This seemed awkward to me and it made me wonder how could these script work.
Any directions you can point me to in order to clear my confusion? Thanks in advance. |
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RaiderUK
Average Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10 April 2001 : 15:20:09
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I had the same problem with PWS 4.0 a while back, I uninstalled it and put it back on and it worked ok.
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Doug G
Support Moderator
USA
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Posted - 10 April 2001 : 17:04:01
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FYI
PWS AND ASP 11/21/2000
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To test your asp web pages, they need to be installed in an asp capable web server, they can't just be in a disk folder. MS has a rather confusing list of web servers, some of which you can use for testing asp. Here's a list from memory:
- FP97 and 98 had a PWS included that doesn't do asp.
- W95 had a download available PWS1.0 that would, with fiddling, do asp (without additional software, anyway).
- W98 has a PWS (4.0) included on the CD. Does asp.
- W98SE has a PWS included on the CD. I believe it's different from the W98 version. Does asp.
- NT4 workstation has Peer Web Services that does asp.
- NT4 Server has IIS 3.0, does asp with some bugs.
- NT4 Server Option Pack has IIS 4.0, does asp.
- NT4 Option Pack also includes PWS 4.0 that runs on W9x (and according to another thread today, runs on Windows ME). Does asp.
- Windows 2000 Professional has IIS 5.0 available. Does asp quite well. Not installed in a default installation.
- Windows 2000 Server has IIS 5.0.
If you want to set up a test web server for yourself, the one you pick will depend on the OS you have. I recommend you use the PWS from the Option Pack CD on W95 and ME. I use the W98x CD version of PWS on W98x. Use IIS5 on W2K. I would never load the PWS off the FP97 or FP98 CD's, it's crippled. Thankfully, MS left PWS off FP2000.
To test this board locally, install the appropriate web server for testing, and setup a test web in the web server. Install the forum pages to this new web. Test it by pointing your browser at http://localhost/yourweb (if the web server is on the same box).
If you open windows explorer and doubleclick an html file, it will open in IE, but it's not being served up by a web server in that case. If you doubleclick an asp file, the asp code isn't executed. You need to reference the asp page by pointing your web browser to the file via a URL like http://127.0.0.1/folder/asppage.asp
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BugLaden
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