ASP Web Site On A CD????

[pwel]

I have a client that wishes to put thier ASP web site onto a CD for distribution. The site would need to be fully functional from the CD, i.e. full database searching facilities, etc.

Can this be done?

If so, does anyone know? What would I need on the CD to get this to work?

Any help would be much appreciated.

pWel.

 

[hblackorby]

In order for ASP to be processed, it must be run through a server. Unless each computer you run the CD on is had Personal Web Server loaded and running, ASP pages wont work. Even then, it must be run though each person's PWS. Honestly, this is almost impossible to do on a CD automatically.

Your better option is to code the program in pure Visual Basic, which has all the functionality of ASP (and a lot more too.) That way you don't have to mess with PWS at all. Harold Blackorby
hblackorby@scoreinteractive.com
St. Louis, MO

 

[chiph]

Hmmm. Contents of an ASP site on a CD....

You'd need the .asp files (obviously). Any .html, .jpg, gif's and the usual other web stuff.

If you do any data access, you'd have to ensure they had the correct release of MDAC. And have a DSN created for it. Also, any permissions set in IIS or PWS would have to be duplicated. Don't forget about any filesystem permissions (if any).

It's starting to look a little messy. There's no doubt that you could do it using one of the setup program creators (InstallShield, Wise, etc). But you have to ask whether it'd be worth the time and expense.

My first boss in the industry told me: "Everything is possible in software, provided you have enough time and money."

Chip H.

 

[DonP]

I did this very thing for a special event were there was no Internet connection available and it worked fine, but it is not something that can be easily distributed from system to system. As posted above, it requires a Web server such PWS or IIs to run (assuming each is running Windows) and that must be set up individually on each machine. In our case, it was also very slow.

Don
don@ctagroup.org

http://www.helpscc.org/

Experienced in HTML, Perl, VBScript, PWS, IIS and Apache. Run OS/2 Warp 4, BeOS v5 and Windows NT (only when I have to!)