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ASP on FreeBSD
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It should be possible. I think there are a couple of ASP interpreters for Apache, but the main one is at Chili!Soft ASP is not directly available for the FreeBSD platform, but I'm pretty sure if you run FreeBSD in Linux compatibility mode, you will be able to use it.
Whether it's worth it is perhaps a better question. I doubt you will get the same performance out of ASP on Unix as you will get on Windows NT or 2000. I could be wrong there, but let's face it; ASP was written for Windows/IIS.
I think you will also be faced with more headaches than you expected, if you are hoping to simply drop your existing application from an NT system directly into ASP for Unix, you will probably be disappointed. Browsing the Chillisoft documentation a bit shows that there are compatibility issues still to be resolved completely, and not ALL functionality from Windows/IIS is available.
I have never used ASP with Apache and doubt I ever will, so I can't give you direct experience, but I think if your existing codebase is not too great, you should consider porting your code to PHP. PHP is truly cross-platform and cross-webserver, with only a few minor differences in functionality (mainly related to the greater flexibility of the Unix filesystem), and PHP has very few configuration headaches with databases. It communicates with most databases (including MSSQL) in native mode, rather than needing that monstrosity known as ODBC. PHP actually accesses a MSSQL database faster than ASP on the same Windows system.
Also, having worked with both, I find I really prefer the PHP language over VBScript. It's just refreshingly clean and functional.
Whether it's worth it is perhaps a better question. I doubt you will get the same performance out of ASP on Unix as you will get on Windows NT or 2000. I could be wrong there, but let's face it; ASP was written for Windows/IIS.
I think you will also be faced with more headaches than you expected, if you are hoping to simply drop your existing application from an NT system directly into ASP for Unix, you will probably be disappointed. Browsing the Chillisoft documentation a bit shows that there are compatibility issues still to be resolved completely, and not ALL functionality from Windows/IIS is available.
I have never used ASP with Apache and doubt I ever will, so I can't give you direct experience, but I think if your existing codebase is not too great, you should consider porting your code to PHP. PHP is truly cross-platform and cross-webserver, with only a few minor differences in functionality (mainly related to the greater flexibility of the Unix filesystem), and PHP has very few configuration headaches with databases. It communicates with most databases (including MSSQL) in native mode, rather than needing that monstrosity known as ODBC. PHP actually accesses a MSSQL database faster than ASP on the same Windows system.
Also, having worked with both, I find I really prefer the PHP language over VBScript. It's just refreshingly clean and functional.
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Maybe get the Wrox Press book "Beginning PHP4".
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