Dave,
Hi,
I searched through the FAQs and list archive and I haven't been able to find an answer to a very basic question I have.
Well, this basic question is asked once or twice every month in this list :-)
First, I have been able to get Apache::ASP installed and working on my server, and sample code works.
The reason I was investigating using Apache::ASP is that I was led to believe that I could take ASP pages from a Win2k / IIS server and put them on our Unix-based Apache web server. However, looking at the errors in the error_log of the web server when I try unsuccessfully to bring up one of these pages copied from the IIS server, it seems like the scripting in the Apache::ASP page must be written in Perl...
Yes. And actually this IS in the main FAQ:
"*VBScript or JScript supported?* Yes, but not with this Perl module. For ASP with other scripting languages besides Perl, you will need to go with a commercial vendor in the UNIX world. Sun and Stryon have such solutions. Of course on Windows NT and Windows 2000, you get VBScript for free with IIS."
that's also what I am starting to believe from the terse info available on the Intro page at http://www.apache-asp.org/
So my question is, what does Apache::ASP actually have to do with the ASP code for IIS? Anything at all?
Well, Apache::ASP _looks_very_much_like_ ASP, but it uses Perl.
In other words: nothing, really :-) IMHO it is just a "similar concept" or "similar architecture": if you already know ASP, and also know perl, then you can start programming in Apache::ASP in five minutes.
From the website:
"Apache::ASP provides an Active Server Pages port to the Apache Web Server with Perl scripting only, and enables developing of dynamic web applications with session management and embedded Perl code. There are also many powerful extensions, including XML taglibs, XSLT rendering, and new events not originally part of the ASP API!"
If I am barking up the wrong tree to try making these ASP / IIS scripts work here, is there a tool or library other than Apache::ASP that would be able to make these scripts work on an Apache web server?
Read the FAQ :-))
- Csongor
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