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Welcome to the exciting world of ASP
( Active Server Pages )
This tutorial will not cover ASP Components
What is ASP ?
Active Server Pages or ASP, is a method that enables you to make dynamic and interactive web pages. ASP uses server-side scripting to dynamically produce web pages that are not affected by the type of browser the web site visitor is using. The default scripting language used for writing ASP is VBScript, although you can use other scripting languages like JScript.
ASP pages have the extension .asp instead of .html. When a page with the extension .asp is requested by a browser the web server "knows" to interpret any ASP code contained within the web page before sending the HTML produced by the server to the browser. This way all the ASP code is run on the web server and no ASP coding will ever be passed to the web browser.
Any web pages containing ASP coding cannot be run by just opening the page locally in a web browser. The page must be requested through a web server that supports ASP.
ASP's primary deployment was initially on Internet Information Server (IIS). IIS runs on Windows 2000/XP Pro or NT4 platforms. ASP runs best when hosted on these platforms. To test ASP pages locally you must have IIS server or PWS installed on your local system. Both are free and included in your Windows Install package. You can install Internet Information Server (IIS) or Personal Web Server (PWS) from the following locations locally or the web:
IIS:
- Windows 2000/XP Pro - 'Add/Remove Programs' --> 'Windows Applications'
- Windows NT4/95 - Download the NT4 Option Pack from Microsoft
PWS:
- Windows 98 - PWS can be found under 'add-ons' on the Windows 98 CD.
Windows OS systems that do not support ASP locally
- Windows ME - IIS and PWS are not supported on this operating system.
- Windows XP Home Edition - IIS and PWS are not supported on this operating system.
For those running other operating systems or web servers Sun produces a product called Chili!Soft ASP which enables ASP to be used on other web servers including, Apache, I-Planet, Zeus, Red Hat Secure Server. You can download a trial version from, http://www.chilisoft.com .
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