ASP, HTML, COM......What the.....?

[Dollie]

OK...I've managed to narrow down my choices of program to use for ASP pages to MS products, and I've hit a MAJOR roadblock!&nbsp;&nbsp;I keep coming back to these forums because I've gotten so much help....and I don't even have to pretend to be a male! &lt;grin&gt;<br><br>We are currently hosting our site from our office.&nbsp;&nbsp;We are moving it to our ISP, and they don't support ASP!&nbsp;&nbsp;Not only do they not support ASP, they do not support Frontpage extensions.&nbsp;&nbsp;They have a Unix server.<br><br>I don't suppose there's a really easy way to convert ASP to HTML?&nbsp;&nbsp;I've seen many database pages that are HTML, but I'm not to the point I can clearly read the code and understand it.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>Thank y'all so much!

 

[NickBulka]

Hello, Dollie, well Hello Dollie....<br>Sorry, felt like singing! ;-)<br><br>Anyway, it's hard to answer this question without seeing the code or size of the site,&nbsp;&nbsp;but the question that cries out to be answered here is: how much of your site is created dynamically?&nbsp;&nbsp;Usually, ASP based sites are very dynamic,&nbsp;&nbsp;which makes conversion to pure HTML impossible.&nbsp;&nbsp;If a majority of the site is static,&nbsp;&nbsp;you could probably convert your ASP pages to some other architecture, like CGI or PHP (what does your ISP support?) which would mean rewriting all your VBScript in another language like perl or C.&nbsp;&nbsp;On the other hand, if your site is database driven, and you're using ADO and/or other Microsoft technologies, the answer is not to change your site,&nbsp;&nbsp;but to change ISPs.<br><br>Probably not the answer you were hoping for.<br> <p>nick bulka<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[palbano]

To add to Nick's comment:<br><br>If you are doing database access especially writing to the database from the web pages, I would drop the ISP and find one that supports Visual Interdev and SQL Server 7.<br><br>Other servers and platforms can be used to accomplish this level of functionality but require much more effort and engineering experience not to mention you won't have to re-write all your code.<br><br>&quot;But, that's just my opinion... I could be wrong&quot;.<br>-pete<br>

 

[unicorn11]

Even under *nix asp is supported under unix with iasp or chilli asp <br><br>&nbsp;but i have never used a unix based server for asp so i&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;do not know if any changes have to done in the asp for <br>&nbsp;it to work under *nix <br><br>but the easist will be to just change isp's <br><br>ps - who says being a lady! means nobody will help <br>&nbsp;hell there are a lot of people ready to help <br>damsels in distress !!!! B-) <p>Unicorn11<br><a href=mailto:webmaster@tripmedia.com>webmaster@tripmedia.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>Hi there it all likeminded fellows!!!!!!