Running ASP pages on local machine?

[Guest_imported]

Hi,

I'm a "newbie" to asp, I would like to know if I can test and run asp pages localy on my machine, before uploading the pages to a server. I read that you can do this using Microsoft Personal Web Server - but its too much of a heafty dowload for me (my ISP disconnects me after 2hrs) also I don't have the win98 CD!

Are the any other programs or ways to do this?

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[DeZiner]

Check with your isp (ie:aol, earthlink) and see if they give you free web space and if they possibly support asp. DeZiner
Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that amateurs built the Ark.
Professionals built the Titanic

 

[Guest_imported]

Ok thanks. My ISP doesnt support ASP, im using

http://www.brinkster.com,

its browser based upload and takes forever! but its free.

 

[jasonsalas]

Actually, the best way would be to download Personal Web Server. It shouldn't take longer than 2 hours...and you can do pretty much anything you want. I use Brinkster's free service for some test scripts with ASP.NET and while free...it's really limited in what you can do for learning.

 

[hblackorby]

You can download Personal Webserver from Microsoft by downloading the Windows NT Option Pack (4.0) and choosing your operating system as Win95/98 (whichever one you use). I know this is weird, but PWS originally came with WinNT Option Pack, so it's downloadable only by this way now. Also, on some newer Win98 CD's you can install PWS directly from the Win98 CD. Try going to Start...Control Panel...Add/Remove Programs...Microsoft Windows

It should as you for the Win98 CD. You can browse around the software lists for Windows there and if you see PWS, you can add it. If you don't, then it didn't come with that version of the CD. Harold Blackorby
hblackorby@scoreinteractive.com
St. Louis, MO

 

[jasonsalas]

Good thoughts Harold,

As an afterthought to running PWS, I've seen people get confused to the path to the Web server when implementing scripts if they installed MS FrontPage. (I've helped lots of people with this one).

If developers installed FrontPage 97+, the path might read as:

c:\Webshare\

http://wwwroot

...whereas the NT Option Pack, as we well know installs PWS by default at:

c:\Inetpub\

http://wwwroot

Just some background in case anyone gets lost.

Jason Salas
Web Development Manager
jason@kuam.com