how to start

[rachelason]

HI! i need some general information about installing and developing in ASP.
Currently an hosting company is taking care of our backup and domains. What do i need to do if i want to develop a site in asp? do i have to install a seperate server in my office? can anyone tell me how much it would cost approximately for the changeover?
thanks
rach

 

[emozley]

You should have a server that you develop on in the office and then when you are finished you can upload the files onto the website.

You can set up IIS on your office PC which will turn it into a webserver. This means you will be able to type in

http://mycomputer

and it will be like viewing a website normally.

For the database I would use MS SQL Server Express. It's free and really quite powerful. If you are not familiar with this you can use Access - just depends on how much you want to do!

You need to check with your web hosting company what ASP/Database support they give. They could be running PHP/Apache/MySQL on a Linux server rather than ASP/IIS/MS SQL Server on a Windows server.

Hope that helps!

Ed

 

[DotNetGnat]

i would contacting your web hosting company first in order to find out what they actually support and then act accordingly as suggested by Ed

-DNG

 

[rachelason]

thank you for your reply. I found that my hosting company can do both. Do i have to pay any licence fee for using asp or asp.net or anyother microsoft product would you know? i tried their site but in vain.
thanks again.
Rach

 

[emozley]

IIS comes free with Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional. This is able to process the ASP.

You can download SQL Server Express which is free from:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/download/

If you have a professional edition of Office that has access on you could do use this as for your database and although this isn't free it is easier to use for beginners.

E.

 

[DotNetGnat]

no you dont have to pay any additional licensing fee

-DNG

 

[rachelason]

thanks everyone for the help. I really appreciate it.
rach

 

[Bullschmidt]

And perhaps this may hopefully give you some ideas:

Web Database Concept

http://www.bullschmidt.com/concept.asp

Best regards,
-Paul

http://www.Bullschmidt.com

- Freelance Web and Database Developer

http://www.Bullschmidt.com/DevTip.asp

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