newbie question

ts2032 · Jul 13, 2002

hello all,

I am new to VID and am using VID6. I have a test page that connects to a database and retrieves a name and comment from the table. I thought that my asp pages were being run on the server, but as my pages were not displaying correctly, I viewed the source of the page and saw that all of my coding was within the html of the page. In other words, the page was blank, except for the heading, but when I viewed the source, I could see all of the <%request.form("Data&quot

%> coding. So, I am confused. Any help would be appreciated.

tsmith

cbokowski · Jul 17, 2002

What file extension is the file? If the extenstion is something other than .asp it will not process the page.

Try this to insure iis and vid is working correct.
Create a new asp page. Add this line (after the <body>): <% response.write "hello world" %>

Hth

ts2032 · Jul 17, 2002

Thank you for your response,

Yes all the filenames have the asp extension. When I view the source all of the active server script shows up, so I am assuming that either IIS is not installed on the server or it does not support asp for some reason. I am kinda new to the whole web/server type stuff.

Once again,Thank you.

tsmith

cbokowski · Jul 18, 2002

What OS are you running? If win2k or xp you can go thru add/remove in control panel and look under windows components for the iis.

here is a good link for setting up VID6 (watch for wrap)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q243898

ts2032 · Jul 19, 2002

I contacted my web host and was told that they did not support active server pages.

thank you for your respnse.writes

t.smith

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