Freeware ASP server?

[Julianne]

I'm on XP Home and have been happily using the Abyss web server with ActiveHTML for processing ASP. However, I didn't realise I needed a (free) license for ActiveHTML, so it's now expired on me and I can't get it back working even with the files for the license.

I don't know of anyone with a Windows 2000 CD so I can't try the "hack" that was mentioned a few topics previously.

Does anyone know of a freeware or cheap server that I can install that has native ASP support?

Many thanks.

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[tschonken]

I have heard that Apache server can also support asp. I do not know however how true this is, seeing that I have not investigating this.

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[robi2]

If your looking for a free asp server try these:

http://www.dotnetplayground.com

http://www.brinkster.com

for a full list try here:

http://4guysfromrolla.aspin.com/home/hosting/freehost?cob=4guysfromrolla

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/aspfaqs/ShowFAQ.asp?FAQID=144

and check out the links.

 

[Julianne]

I've already got some freebie space on Brinkster, thanks. What I'm after is a server I can run on my home PC so I can test pages without having to upload each one individually through the Brinkster control panel.

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[pgferro]

Personal Web Server ?? It's in win98 cd !

 

[Julianne]

Yes, but I am using XP Home, which doesn't officially support PWS or IIS. Quite why Microsoft decided to make life difficult for so many people buying new PCs is anyone's guess.

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[pgferro]

Sorry, didn't catch the xp home...
There's a very nice thread you shoudl read with a couple of solutions to your problem

thread333-175058

 

[martiros]

Julianne,
those win2000 files are only 160kb.
what's your email?

 

[xutopia]

well technically PWS and IIS are never free. You pay for them either when you buy the OS or when you buy it from Microsoft.

As far as I know the only route to have something similar to ASP (but faster and really free with no hidden costs) is the PHP/Apache combination.

The good thing about PHP too is that if you decide to have it run on IIS or PWS you can cause it runs on virtually any operating system and a plethora of web servers.

Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

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[dilettante]

I agree with xutopia. Installing IIS on XP Home is piracy. Part of what you are buying when you pay for XP Pro is IIS and related bits and pieces.

When XP was released Microsoft was very explicit in saying that XP Home was not meant as a software development platform. I know this is disappointing to people who bought computers with XP Home preinstalled. If you want to blame somebody, blame the computer vendor who went cheap on you. Of course many offered XP Pro instead at a somewhat higher cost. Nobody left to blame in such a case I guess.

It might be nice if they had included something like PWS with XP Home, but the target market for this OS was "home users" (kids and such).

 

[Julianne]

I bought my PC directly via the manufacturer (Fujitsu) and it's pretty much top of the range at the minute (3.06ghz Pentium 4 etc). It cost me £1,239.00 without a monitor! I did ask about XP Pro but it was a no-go.

I do have XP Pro on my other computer, but I can't therefore use it on the new one and although the CD includes IIS apparently the "hack" will only work with the files from Windows 2000 Server or Professional.

I've had a look at Apache. You used to be able to get ASP working with it by using Sun Chilisoft ASP and from what I know the Developer edition of it used to be free. The product is now called Sun One Active Server Pages and there's no mention of a free version.

I might have to just wipe my hard drive so I can reinstall ActiveHTML to use with the Abyss server, now that I know I have to get hold of the free license files before the evaluation period expires.

If anyone knows whether there's anywhere I can still get hold of the free version of Chilisoft ASP, or Sun One ASP that would be good - thanks.

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[dilettante]

Have you tried to install the "trial version" from Sun?

Maybe it is an unlimited-trial/developer-version limited to single CPU machines.

I don't see any mention of ADO on their site. Any idea if it can do that? Pretty worthless to me if not. Maybe on a Windows machine you'd have ADO natively though and just get at it via Server.CreatObject( ) or something.

I'd still say go shopping for a good price on WinXP Pro. Going with ChiliSoft/Sun ASP you're still stuck with Apache admin heartaches.