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Programming => Web Development => Topic started by: UserLoser. on November 26, 2003, 06:43 PM

Title: In search of...
Post by: UserLoser. on November 26, 2003, 06:43 PM
I believe it's an ASP/ASP.net interpreter?  Whatever the thing is called that translates the code in the actual page, back to the server and the server outputs sends it to the browsing user.  I need one that will work on Windows XP Home.  I had seliSoft (http://www.selisoft.com/)'s ActiveHTML, but that was only a trial and it costs money.  I'm using Abyss Web Server (http://www.aprelium.com).
Title: Re:In search of...
Post by: Skywing on November 26, 2003, 06:46 PM
Quote from: UserLoser. on November 26, 2003, 06:43 PM
I believe it's an ASP/ASP.net interpreter?  Whatever the thing is called that translates the code in the actual page, back to the server and the server outputs sends it to the browsing user.  I need one that will work on Windows XP Home.  I had seliSoft (http://www.selisoft.com/)'s ActiveHTML, but that was only a trial and it costs money.  I'm using Abyss Web Server (http://www.aprelium.com).
This is exactly why you should get Windows XP Professional - among other things, it has IIS with ASP(.NET) support...
Title: Re:In search of...
Post by: UserLoser. on November 26, 2003, 06:52 PM
I'm not to sure what IIS is, mind explaining?  Also, can it be downloaded (from ms?)/installed on to a XP Home system?
Title: Re:In search of...
Post by: Skywing on November 26, 2003, 07:04 PM
Quote from: UserLoser. on November 26, 2003, 06:52 PM
I'm not to sure what IIS is, mind explaining?  Also, can it be downloaded (from ms?)/installed on to a XP Home system?
Microsoft's site provides information on IIS on Windows XP Professional (http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/pro/evaluation/overviews/iis.asp).  I have no experience with trying to get it to work on Windows XP Home Edition.
Title: Re:In search of...
Post by: Banana fanna fo fanna on November 26, 2003, 08:06 PM
IIS is Microsoft's crappy web server. Don't use it. Honestly.
Title: Re:In search of...
Post by: UserLoser. on November 26, 2003, 08:30 PM
What would you suggest then?
Title: Re:In search of...
Post by: MyndFyre on November 26, 2003, 08:36 PM
Actually, there's a way to install IIS 6 if you have any kind of WinXP Pro (e.g. the trial) CD on XP Home, let me see if I can dig it up somewhere at home.  You can also try Cassini Web Server, do a search at www.GotDotNet.com.
Title: Re:In search of...
Post by: Denial on November 26, 2003, 10:33 PM
yes get the newest iis the old ones 4.0 and such have easy exploits and you would soon be seeing cats all over your site.
Title: Re:In search of...
Post by: Banana fanna fo fanna on November 27, 2003, 09:40 AM
Yes, Cassini is what you want.
Title: Re:In search of...
Post by: UserLoser. on November 27, 2003, 11:04 AM
Well I searched for Cassini, i found it on Asp.net, but in the download you have to compile it... And it doesn't work for me, i guess i don't have the right compiler/whatever else is needed for it... Can someone compile the exe, dll, and upload it somewhere?
Title: Re:In search of...
Post by: quasi-modo on November 28, 2003, 02:36 AM
cassini only accepts local requests so it is only going to work when you type http://localhost or http://yourlocalip etc.
Title: Re:In search of...
Post by: j0k3r on November 28, 2003, 07:48 AM
Quote from: peofeoknight on November 28, 2003, 02:36 AM
cassini only accepts local requests so it is only going to work when you type http://localhost or http://yourlocalip etc.
It's the same thing for Apache/PHPDEV, so I'll try to elaborate. Anything you want to run or have executed will probably have to go in a subfolder called 'www' (I'm assuming it's the similar to PHPDEV) in the folder where you start your program, but this is an assumption. When you open http://localhost it will probably look in that folder.
Title: Re:In search of...
Post by: quasi-modo on November 28, 2003, 12:27 PM
I have used cassini. It is only going to work for testing purposes of a site but can't be used to host it. But about the folder thing, you can change the path but it recognizes that folder as a virtual directory. For example when I used it breifly for testing my pages before I had iis the folder was the same one I keep all of my work in. So if all of your files are in folder called "aspnet work" on your desktop, you would create a shorcut to cassini there and then go into properties and type in the path where it asks for the path.
Title: Re:In search of...
Post by: Banana fanna fo fanna on November 28, 2003, 08:59 PM
What you'd do is hook up something like either a virtual directory, host, file type, or mod_rewrite rule in Apache to direct all ASP.NET requests to Cassini.

I forget exactly what it is. If it's important, I'll look it up for you.
Title: Re:In search of...
Post by: quasi-modo on November 29, 2003, 09:51 PM
Heh, I can just let someone dl a copy of iis if they need it.
Title: Re:In search of...
Post by: ObsidianWolf on December 02, 2003, 11:09 PM
Quote from: peofeoknight on November 29, 2003, 09:51 PM
Heh, I can just let someone dl a copy of iis if they need it.
O yes, please do increase the number of people that have iis, more money for me.
Title: Re:In search of...
Post by: quasi-modo on December 05, 2003, 04:30 PM
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