Getting started with UltraDev on a Mac

[chuckdesign]

OK, here's a totally newbie question:

I'm an exerpienced Dreamweaver 4 user who is just crossing over into UltraDev (actually, I upgraded to Dreamweaver MX -- which incorporates UltraDev -- running on OS 9.2). My research, including SAM's "Teach Yourself ASP Web Development", seems to indicate that I need to set up a Web server -- either a Windows 98/NT computer or Mac OS X.1 using Apache Web Server -- in order to do the ASP functions.

Is that true? Can anybody shed light on whether I absolutely need to set up a Web server in order to learn the ASP portion of the program? Is there a workaround -- such as doing everything remotely on a server? What challenges lie ahead?

For a variety of reasons, I'm not ready to upgrade to OS X.1 or switch to a Wintel machine. I just want to create some basic interactive forms, etc. in ASP.

Thanks for your help! The new Dreamweaver MX manual (the only source that mentions Mac at all in relation to ASP) doesn't help much.

Chuckdesign

 

[schase]

I am not a Mac User

However I from the start had problems with the Personal Web Server, and never really tried to fix it.

I always set up a test directory on the web, and upload the files - check it out, upload some more, etc.

"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"

-Adm. James Farragut

Stuart

 

[ScottNeth]

I tried running on MAC OS 9 - the live data feature won't work (which I don't use anyway) - if you use a remote site (in ColdFusion anyway) you can develop and run off the development server. I couldn't figure out the Apache webserver stuff so that's how I worked around it. Scott Neth
Web Designer/Cyberpunk

 

[chuckdesign]

Thanks for your help, guys. I feel much better now.

I've also ordered the SAM's Teach Yourself Dremweaver UltraDev book, which hopefully will give me more info than the Dreamweaver manual did.

Chuckdesign