Win95, will ASP work?

[Dan01]

I have Microsoft Personal Web Server and Windows95. Even something as simple as <%Time%> doesn't resolve in Internet Explorer 5.5. Will I need to upgrade the operating system to test ASP pages? Thanks, Dan.

 

[jitter]

Hmmm....I think PWS does support up to ASP 2.0 but I am not sure. I know I am running PWS on my Win98 machine and it works fine. Exactly what is it doing? Or not doing I should say. In the above example you are putting <%=Time%> right? Do you have your virtual directory set up correctly for running the web page through the server? Let me know if you have other information about exactly what is going wrong.

 

[Dan01]

Hi Jitter, how do you get a page set up as a virtual directory? I have the asp file in a folder that is defined as a virtual directory in Personal Web Manager. When I load the file, the regular HTML shows, but <%TIME%> doesn't show. Also, when I try to load the page directly in the browser in the address line, FrontPage automatically opens up instead! Is there a way to suppress that. Thanks, Dan.

 

[jitter]

are you trying to open the page using the physical address in the browser ie. C:\Folder\MyAsp.asp or are you running it through the server ie.

http://ComputerName/virtualfolder/MyAsp.asp?

This may sound trivial but are you sure that PWS is running. When you open up the PWS does the button say Stop or Start? Then again I am not totally sure if it runs on Win95. But these are some things to check. Let me know what you find.

 

[Dan01]

Hi, I just tried to access the page using

http://127.0.01/Programming

folder/test1.asp. Programming folder is defined as virtual directory. Text in the page shows, but the <%TIME%> value does not show. Does <%TIME%> need any includes or other libraries to work? Also, wieh I hold my cursor over the Microsoft server icon, a note says &quot;Personal Web Server is Running.&quot; Thanks, Dan.

 

[jitter]

Are you sure you have <%=Time%>? You must have the = sign in there.

You could also use <%Response.Write Time%>

You might just try adding <%Response.Write &quot;Testing&quot;%> to see if the asp is getting processed at all.

 

[tbrick18]

Officially, I am sure PWS is supposed to support ASP. However, I have done some development work in IIS and tried to migrate to PWS for some local testing. Code which did work in IIS was not treated correctly in PWS. I found it rather unstable and unpredictable when running ASP code.

Reccomend NT4 and IIS.

 

[Dan01]

Hi all, I got ASP to work on my machine. PWS has a trouble shooting section which walked me through the fix. I modified the HOST file in Windows by adding 127.0.0.1 and my machine name to the HOST file, and removed the .sam extension from the file. I then went into Explorer and set up an Exception to proxy server using my computer's machine name. I typed localhost in the address bar of explorer and was invited by Microsoft to set up a personal web page using the PWS web page wizard. The <%=TIME%> works correctly now! Thanks guys, Dan.