Testing ASP off line, on XP Home

[Matt Massie]

I downloaded a simple login package that uses asp files to look in an access
database, then go to an authorized user page or an unauthorized user page,
depending on the result. Note: I'm working offline, trying to test this file
locally. all the files required are in the same folder.- When I login, My
browser displays the raw code for the "check_user.asp" file. Any clues to
why?

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Matt Massie

[McKirahan]

"Matt Massie" <rmmassie@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:mdmdnbrpurVsJQeiRVn-jw@comcast.com...

> I downloaded a simple login package that uses asp files to look in an

access

> database, then go to an authorized user page or an unauthorized user page,
> depending on the result. Note: I'm working offline, trying to test this

file

> locally. all the files required are in the same folder.- When I login, My
> browser displays the raw code for the "check_user.asp" file. Any clues to
> why?
>
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> Matt Massie

Open your browser and type :

http://localhost/{your_folder}/{your_page.asp}

Don't open it up as a "file" but use your Web server to open it up as a
"page".

[Aaron Bertrand [MVP]]

> I downloaded a simple login package that uses asp files to look in an
access

> database, then go to an authorized user page or an unauthorized user page,
> depending on the result. Note: I'm working offline, trying to test this

file

> locally. all the files required are in the same folder.- When I login, My
> browser displays the raw code for the "check_user.asp" file. Any clues to
> why?

Because XP home doesn't have IIS (or any other web server), which is
required to run ASP pages.

[url]http://www.aspfaq.com/2079[/url]

[Wayfarer]

Thus spake Aaron Bertrand [MVP]:

> > I downloaded a simple login package that uses asp files to look in an

> access

> > database, then go to an authorized user page or an unauthorized user page,
> > depending on the result. Note: I'm working offline, trying to test this

> file

> > locally. all the files required are in the same folder.- When I login, My
> > browser displays the raw code for the "check_user.asp" file. Any clues to
> > why?

>
> Because XP home doesn't have IIS (or any other web server), which is
> required to run ASP pages.
>
> [url]http://www.aspfaq.com/2079[/url]

But one thing you can do is to get Abyss webserver (freeware -
[url]http://www.aprelium.com/[/url]) and add on the ActiveHTML CGI package (about
35 USD - [url]http://www.selisoft.com/en/ahtml/[/url]). ActiveHTML will let you
try it for free for a while to see if it'll work for you. With
ActiveHTML installed, it emulates IIS fairly well as far as ASP Classic
is concerned.

I got stuck ordering XP Home myself, not knowing it didn't have IIS on
it, so I had to make do and it's worked out pretty well for development.
Someday when I have more money I still want to get IIS so I can start
working in ASP.NET though. That looks really cool.

HTH

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