Unique Experience with .asp and WinNT 4 server

[Ovatvvon]

I posted this once before, but no one replied other than asking for code...once I gave it to him, that was it.

At work we have a primary domain controller and a backup domain controller both of which we can use as our web server. They both run winNT 4.0 server (SP6a) with IIS 4.0. They both have dual cpu's and 256MB ram.

My problem:
We can get basic html pages to display for the site, but everytime we try to display an .asp page, it sits and stalls and stalls like it doesn't know what to do...at least whenever we try to make a database connection via ADO.

Well, that has changed now, now any .asp page won't display at all. Even if the only code in the whole page is a simple text string like "Hello there." It says, 'page cannot be displayed'.


Question:
Does anyone know what would cause this, and what we can do to correct it?

Thanks in advance! -Ovatvvon :-Q

 

[BigBadDave]

I had this same problem at work, and our network administrator put visual studio on the machine and it seemed to fix it, dun oh why. Regards

Big Dave


** If I am wrong I am sorry, but i'm only trying to help!! **

 

[Ovatvvon]

Unfortuanately, who I work for is very strict on what software can be put on the system. They spend a lot of money researching compatible software and such, reliable hardware, etc, etc. So they will not let us put any software on the computer that isn't already approved...and it takes a long time to get approved.

I was hoping perhaps there was some kind of driver we needed or a setting needed to be changed or somthing.

Can anyone help?

p.s. Was it Visual Studio 6 professional, or the back office that he installed? (It would make somewhat sense to me that it would work with back office installed....but not that it wouldn't work without it installed.)
-Ovatvvon :-Q

 

[Swany]

Well it sounds like asp.dll is having a problem executing.

I'd suggest an install of MDAC 2.6 SP1, followed by a reinstall of SP6a.

Since regular .html files work, check the document settings in IIS to make sure that .ASP files are associated with asp.dll

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[Ovatvvon]

I'll check it out tomorrow at work and reply with results. -Ovatvvon :-Q