Gil — Mon, 10 Apr 2000 01:32:00 +0000

Coddy, I use PWS all the time when I'm developing ASP applications. Make sure that you use http://127.0.0.1 as the URL for your machine.

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Gil Hildebrand, Jr.
Senior Web Developer, 4atcost.com

Lloyd Hassell — Fri, 31 Mar 2000 04:55:00 +0000

PWS should work fine if you installed it without getting any errors. I have no idea what the last post about file extensions means - you shouldnt have to mess around with anything.

If you didnt know already, you cant just double click an ASP file and have it appear in a browser, you must link to them from somewhere within your root.

It would help if you explained to us exactly how you are attempting to view an ASP page.

lamandais — Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:25:00 +0000

have you pws extensions properly installed.
If using windows, need to do some work on hosts.sam file in system folder.

Vincent Puglia — Sat, 11 Mar 2000 01:50:00 +0000

Hi,

Don't want to offend, but are you sure it's installed correctly? Is it within the path? What sort of psw error messages, if any, are you getting?

Vinny

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Coddy — Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:24:00 +0000

Adam,
I have PWS installed however, It doesn't seem to work when I'm off-line.
Can you give me any feedback on this please?

Thanx

Coddy

Wed, 08 Mar 2000 21:19:00 +0000

The 'best' ASP server for Windows 95/98 is PWS (Microsoft Personal Web Server). It's easy to install, free to use, and not too complicated for "basic application testing".

PWS should be on your Windows CD-ROM. You can also download it from Microsoft.

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AIS Internet Solutions
adam@aisinternet.com
www.aisinternet.com

Maverick — Wed, 08 Mar 2000 20:14:00 +0000

Yes. You'll need to set-up some web server software on your machine. Run the server and preview your pages through the home machine server. That will parse the .asp tags just like the remote server so you can see the output before publishing. Many of us do the same thing for other server-side languages like Perl/CGI ePerl, PHP, SSI, etc. It's a heck of a lot easier than having to upload a file to test it.

Personally, I use Apache/PHP/ActivePerl/MySQL on my home machine for testing, but as that's Unix-based, I don't think that set-up will work for .asp pages.

Try visiting http://serverwatch.internet.com/

There are some freeware web server packages that can run on your home machine AND handle .asp, but the names escape me. Try searching for GoAhead (or something similar). I think that one might do it, but no guarantees.