I need help setting up for ASP 1

[scuttleButt]

I am just beginning ASP. I bought a book and am trying the examples. I am using 98 release2's PWS. That is all I have at the moment. I created a .asp page and put it in the root of my inetpub/

http://wwwroot

directory. When I click on the file the computer asks me to associate it with a program so I associate it with iexplorer and instead of seeing the finished product page I see the code (like I'm in notepad). At work when I create the page the browser opens and I can read the html in the finished product but none of the code between the <%%> works... not even something as simple as <% intS = 60*60 %>. Can anyone tell me what I am missing? Any help would be appreciated... Thanks!

 

[mrichards]

An asp must be past through the server first. Just type

http://YourComputerName/YourPageName.asp

This should do it.

Mark

 

[scuttleButt]

I just tried putting

http://mycomputername/testasp.asp

in my browser. I still don't get the results from the code between the <% %>. I only get the html code. One thing that it did help was that when I view source I do not see the ASP code which is what it is suposed to do. Is there something I might be missing on my PWS that handles ASP code?

 

[hblackorby]

If you aren't getting any ASP code, then the server might have processed it, but did it do anything? What is your ASP supposed to do? You have to write something to the browser in order for it to show up in HTML. Either by response.write(&quot;something&quot or by using <%=&quot;something&quot;%> notice the equals sign. Without that, it might be doing something, but not writing anything to the browser.

Harold Blackorby
hblackorby@scoreinteractive.com

 

[scuttleButt]

Thanks both of you, between the two of you I can get the ASP's to work on my machines now... what a newbie!