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Topic: Newbie question: Blank ASP pages?

Posted By: daveyboy
Subject: Newbie question: Blank ASP pages?
Date Posted: 15 December 2003 at 7:42am

Hi, I'm totally new to ASP page writing and thought I'd start with an example from the Web Wiz Guide.

I'm using an Apache webserver on my PC and I'm trying to view the pages by using my external IP address (and not local host) e.g. http://80.0.0.0/test.asp - http://80.0.0.0/test.asp . I can view HTML pages ok but not ASP. I had the same problem using Microsoft IIS 5.1.

The problem is that any ASP does not display on my webpages. It's just blank where the ASP should be. If I right click the blank webpage and select 'view source', the code is there ok.

I'm using Windows XP Pro.

I just tried a basic test from another website. I used this ASP code:

<html>
<head><title>My first ASP  page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Th e current date is <%=Date%>.</p>
</body>
</html>

When I tried to open this file on my Apache webserver, all I see is
"The current date is ." But when I click on the example webpage on
the net, it shows the date perfectly. This would mean that there is
something wrong with my webserver right?

Any ideas would be great. Thanks alot.

Replies:

Posted By: aalavar
Date Posted: 15 December 2003 at 8:05am

Your webserver needs to support ASP (i.e. have ASP installed). Not all webservers/hosts support ASP... In fact it was very difficult for me to find one that did that was inexpensive...

Posted By: daveyboy
Date Posted: 15 December 2003 at 9:11am

May I ask, which webserver did you go for?

Many thanks for your reply.

Posted By: Badaboem
Date Posted: 15 December 2003 at 9:42am

Apache does support asp, but does not support Web Wiz on linux for example. Not sure if it's os related in this case.

Apache comes with extensive setup information documents..i suggest you read those carefully. There are also plenty GUI windows interfaces that make it a littl easier to setup apache for windows etc.

Posted By: daveyboy
Date Posted: 15 December 2003 at 9:54am

Great! Thanks alot :) I'll try and find some documentation on setting up ASP with Apache.

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 15 December 2003 at 10:04am

http://wwws.sun.com/software/chilisoft/ - http://wwws.sun.com/software/chilisoft/

Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 15 December 2003 at 12:18pm

Mart wrote:

http://wwws.sun.com/software/chilisoft/ - http://wwws.sun.com/software/chilisoft/

Apache does NOT support ASP by default, you need to use chillisoft as Mart mentioned.

I have tried chillisoft on APACHE BUT ONLY FOR WINDOWS and it ran ok, I was able to get ASP pages working on it. I managed to get wwf to work on it, but after A LOT of tweaking.. The problem is that Chilisoft is very expensive but you can use a 30day trial version of it.

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If you dont want my peaches, dont shake my tree

Posted By: Necronom
Date Posted: 23 December 2003 at 12:19am

If you're using XP, why not just run IIS?

- Side note -
Would it be possible to run IIS and Apache on the same box, but different ports, and then some kinf of redirect proxy to deligate which requests go to which port (server) ?

...just a thought for people that want to have the functionality of both, but only have one box.

. necronom .

Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 23 December 2003 at 4:41am

Necronom wrote:

If you're using XP, why not just run IIS?

- Side note -
Would it be possible to run IIS and Apache on the same box, but different ports, and then some kinf of redirect proxy to deligate which requests go to which port (server) ?

...just a thought for people that want to have the functionality of both, but only have one box.

. necronom .

Yes it is possible to use both IIS and Apache on the same box I am doing it here on my Windows XP machine. As long as you make one of them listen of a different port number I chose 8080 for APACHE.. So if I run any apache apps, I will use http://localhost:8080

HTH!!

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If you dont want my peaches, dont shake my tree

Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 24 December 2003 at 3:32pm

if you are using ASP, run IIS, if you are using PHP, run Apache.. ASP is a Microsoft language and runs best on a microsoft IIS web server.. ChiliSoft ASP doesnt support ASP fully..