I was under the impression that Apache couldn't handle ASP. Thanks for the advice.
Paul -----Original Message----- From: tester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ASP Development Paul Kraus wrote: > The problem isn't the editor it's the viewer. Since its server side > scripting I don't want to have to upload a page every time I am done > editing it to view it. In windows there is Microsoft's personal web > server which lets me access the page and see all the server side scripts > run. Its not just vb script although it looks a lot like it. > > Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: Anuerin G. Diaz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 9:32 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] ASP Development > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:11:55 -0500 > "Paul Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Is there a way to view active server pages? I maintain several >>e-commerce sites all built on asp. I could always boot into windows >> > but > >>I am trying to use Linux exclusively to see if it can really meet all >> > my > >>needs. I would need an editor and someway to display the active server >>pages. >> >>Paul Kraus >> > > pardon my ignorance but isn't asp pages just html pages with a lot of > vbscripts inside? if that is the case then you can just edit it with any > of the thousand text editors in linux (nedit, jext, j, kate, > MinimumProfit, emacs, vi, ed,...) and view it on the various browsers > available ( konqueror, mozilla, galeon, opera,...). > > if that was not the answer you were looking for just delete this email. > ;-) > > ciao! > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Edit with whatever--view by installing Apache and using a browser pointed to http://127.0.0.1:80/pagename.asp And put your pages into /var/www/html (you may need to run a terminal as root once to chmod g+rw /var/www/html and add yourself as user to group "apache" using userdrake or linuxconf.) That way, people outside who stumble across your IP can see the pages but cannot write to them, and of course as long as you do nothing with index.shtml they won't see anything but the introductory page unless they know your filenames. Civileme
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