Newbie question: Blank ASP pages?

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   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. 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.

Edited by daveyboy