testing an asp page on my own computer

[mollymoo]

Hi I have built an asp. page for a database results page with a simple search form in FrontPage using its wizard. However, I do not seem to be able to text it on my machine. Any ideas, do i haev to download sometimes first? Thanks

[WoWo]

You need some sort of web server on your machine. Depends on what Operating System your running some come with it built in and others it needs to be installed. To run ASP you need a Microsoft Web Server, either PWS (personal Web Server) on Win 98 or IIS on XP, Win2000 etc.

I don't think it comes with XP Home (it's not on my PC) and I'm not sure if you can download it.

[WoWo]

Sorry should have said, you can't use Apache as ASP is a windows language. There were some attempts to get a mod for Apache going call Chilli!soft but this is really out of date.

[mollymoo]

I am using Windows XP Professional I think. Anyone know where I might be able to download one, if if there is free hosting out there that has it. It needs to be free as I am a student and this is for my uni projects. Thanks

[OBonio]

If you're on Professional, go to start, settings, control panel, add / remove programs, Add / remove Windows components and make sure IIS is ticked.  If it is, it's already installed but might be disabled. 

To enable it, go to Start, Settings, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services.  Find the IIS Admin service and World Wide Web Publishing service and make sure both are enabled and started.

Once both of the above are done, you will need to copy your asp, html etc to c:\inetpub\wwwroot.

Type in http://localhost/myhtmlpage.html into a browser and away you go (hopefully).