Thanks Chris and Fagyal,
To be clear, I'm inheriting the old IIS scripts to try and move onto the Unix Apache server so that the Windows web server can be decommissioned.
Since we're not looking to spend money on this other than man-hours, I guess I'll be looking at trying to port the IIS scripts to PHP by hand (since I don't speak Perl).
Thanks again for the time.
-Dave
On Oct 12, 2004, at 3:23 PM, Christopher Hicks wrote:
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Dave Goodwin wrote:First, I have been able to get Apache::ASP installed and working on my server, and sample code works.
Good good.
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... that's also what I am starting to believe from the terse info available on the Intro page at http://www.apache-asp.org/
You're correct.
So my question is, what does Apache::ASP actually have to do with the ASP code for IIS? Anything at all?
You can write Perl-based ASP which is portable between Windows and UNIX/Linux. I'm not sure whether the Windows side requires Apache or is compatible with IIS.
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?
Not that I'm aware of. I guess porting to something portable is out of the quesiton? Running an IIS-based web server may be popular, but its really not a good idea.**
It sounds like you've let Microsoft lock you in. That makes Microsoft money and costs you money.
Thanks in advance for your time, sorry to ask a question this basic. :-)
Its nice to have some easy questions so that I can help out and give an answer. :)
** Our Windows boxes are purely game machines. Desktops and servers are all Linux now. Our servers have been all Linux for a long time. We have run desktop and server Windows in the past though and I support folks who are doing both still, so I'm speaking from experience -- whether its relevant to you is up to you.
-- </chris>
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