Personal Web Server??

am new in ASP!
I am working on an online database.
what should I do with the PWS so that it works??
(I dont want to use IIS or winNT)
thx!

PWS can be a nightmare to install for no apparent reason. I persume u are running on win95 or 98. All i can suggest is that u have the lastest SP and that you just keep trying, it once took me 3 attempts to get it to work on a 98 machine here at work.

Yeah, no kidding, i had the same problem too, but for some odd reason it eventually worked.

The problem is usually the Frontpage Extensions. I have read that installation on a Win98 system is easiest and most pain free when you install from the Win98 disk and not VS or a download of the NT Option Pack.

If your having trouble, reinstall the Frontpage Extensions.

I don't know i didn't install the fp extensions. It just didn't work.

that wasnt exactly question...
:)
i had no prob installing pws
but i dont know how to work with it
each time i try to open an .asp file it asks me whether i want to open it from its current location or save it to disk..
see?

You must navigate to yourcomputername/file.asp

Note that the wwwroot folder is the yourcomputername/ folder.

Yeah, or you can do, http://localhost/whatever, or http://your.ip.address/whatever

You can use a webserver from www.analogx.com . It's called SimpleServerWWW. It works, but if you want to use frontpage extensions, I don't think they are supported.

I think I know what's happening...the server isn't recognizing the pages as something to interpret and display to the client, it thinks it's a file to download (like a text file or ZIP file). I've never used PWS (Apache all the way!), but look in its configuration files for some way to work differently with .asp files than other files.

Turn on Read and Execute permissions on the directory that the pages are in. If you only have Read and not Execute, the pages can not be executed (They are script remember).

interesting opening an .asp page without an iis or without an
virtual dir.

sonia

if anyone gets the answer please do let me know...

sonia

I got this problem just 2 weeks ago... If you have the Visual Studio CD (or the NT option Pack), just reinstall de Front Page Extensions and everything will be OK. If it doesn't work, uninstall all and then reinstal Visual Interdev and then the FP Extensions.

IIS is giving me lots of problems now. It seems as though everytime it starts not working, i have to format. Hopefully you don't have to do that.

Wierd.. I've experienced intermitten problems with PWS and Windows 98 before, but it was a case of something hosing the fp extensions every few bootups. (Which is your developing on Win98 you know is an all to common occurance)

I haven't had any problems since installing W2k though..

it is something with the firewall i am using i think...

BTW Monte96, do you use i firewall with win2k, and if so, which one?

My firewall sucks and i need a new one. :rolleyes:

No. I don't really need one at this point. I have basically neutered my tcp/ip coming in from the cable modem so that it is only able to access ports that I have open. I got the info on it from Shields Up. That site is really good for testing your hackability.. plus my Win2K machine is not the one that is connected to the net. I have a win98 machine and the others I have here connect using Wingate.

How did you "Neuter"?

:)
I'm the one who first posted the message and now everyone seems to have a similar problem.
I put all my asp file in the root directory and it didnt work
do u think if i uninstall pws and reinstall it again with FP extensions (where do i find it????) it will work?
thx for helping
terry

hi principessa
actually the Q. was
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each time i try to open an .asp file it asks me whether i want to open it from its current location or save it to disk..
see?
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save your asp pages in a new folder (asppage) (you can name it whatever).
right click the folder
click sharing
and share this folder as (asppage) (you can name it whatever.)
and also click on execute.

now open your browser and enter the url

http://127.0.0.1/asppage/myfirstpage.asp



or you can also save your asp pages at c:\inetpub\wwwroot

when u save ur asp pages at wwwroot folder
then you can access ur pages like
http://127.0.0.1/myfirstpage.asp

u don't need to share wwwroot (it is shared by default)

I did that, but i still have a prob.
when i enter my default main page and want to acces a link (that redirects me to a asp page), i get an error from iexplorer that this asp page cant be opened.
dunno why!!!
the same ASP files work very well on IIS !!!! but I dont want to use windows 2000...
do u think my problem is fron iexplorer? or do i have a corrupted version of pws????

sometimes, if i am calling an asp page from a .html page, it asks me to download the .asp page. Thats why i name all my pages with .asp. Try doing that, or stop calling from .html, if that is what you are doing...

hi principessa


how do u enter url to access your default.html?

n have save ur all the .asp and .html files to the same folder which u've shared virtually.?

if u did then

the pws didn't install correctly

i think u need to view about help in pws.