There will always be tweeking when moving between platforms. Write your ASP code with
perlscript as the serverside code and you'll have a lot less tweeking to do.
-Cynthia
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Hicks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 10/12/2004 3:23 PM
To: Apache::ASP mailing list; Dave Goodwin
Cc:
Subject: Re: beginner question - porting from ASP/IIS to Apache::ASP
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Dave Goodwin wrote:
> First, I have been able to get Apache::ASP installed and working on my
> server, and sample code works.
Good good.
> The reason I was investigating using Apache::ASP is that I was led to believe
> that I could take ASP pages from a Win2k / IIS server and put them on our
> Unix-based Apache web server. However, looking at the errors in the error_log
> of the web server when I try unsuccessfully to bring up one of these pages
> copied from the IIS server, it seems like the scripting in the Apache::ASP
> page must be written in Perl... that's also what I am starting to believe
> from the terse info available on the Intro page at http://www.apache-asp.org/
You're correct.
> So my question is, what does Apache::ASP actually have to do with the ASP
> code for IIS? Anything at all?
You can write Perl-based ASP which is portable between Windows and
UNIX/Linux. I'm not sure whether the Windows side requires Apache or is
compatible with IIS.
> If I am barking up the wrong tree to try making these ASP / IIS scripts
> work here, is there a tool or library other than Apache::ASP that would
> be able to make these scripts work on an Apache web server?
Not that I'm aware of. I guess porting to something portable is out of
the quesiton? Running an IIS-based web server may be popular, but its
really not a good idea.**
It sounds like you've let Microsoft lock you in. That makes Microsoft
money and costs you money.
> Thanks in advance for your time, sorry to ask a question this basic. :-)
Its nice to have some easy questions so that I can help out and give an
answer. :)
** Our Windows boxes are purely game machines. Desktops and servers are
all Linux now. Our servers have been all Linux for a long time. We have
run desktop and server Windows in the past though and I support folks who
are doing both still, so I'm speaking from experience -- whether its
relevant to you is up to you.
--
</chris>
Westheimer's Discovery:
"A coupla months in the laboratory can save a coupla hours in the library."
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