Learning ASP

[vaibhav24in]

I am tyying to learn ASP all by my self. I mean using the web tutorails. How can I make run ASP on the local machine. The tutorial said, I will need the windows xp cd to make it run. But I don' have the CD. is there any other method also???? I am using windows xp professional. Why ASP can't work on windows XP home edition???

[Twey]

Why learn ASP? It's not as popular, portable, or powerful as PHP. Python's rather nice too, although it would probably be a lot harder to learn than PHP.

[vaibhav24in]

Thanks for the suggestion!!!!

[Sikky]

Go to http://www.microsoft.com there you might get some help I think, Im sure you can download IIS somewhere or you can even google IIS then download it to your PC. This way you can use it for ASP.

HTH

[Twey]

No. It's available as part of Windows XP Professional or Windows Server 2003, and is no longer available for download.

[Shotgun Ninja]

Wait. Did Microsoft make ASP? I thought it was just another web coding service. But whatever. ASP is way too hard for me, I can't make heads or tails of the FrontPage Server Extension files, much less ASP as a whole.

[jscheuer1]

There is asp and asp.net - asp.net is Microsoft's baby, at least now. I think asp (active server pages) was around before MS got its hands in it and there are still servers that do support asp but not asp.net.

[codeexploiter]

If you are looking for some other web server that supports ASP (classic ASP) then try the following web servers

Sun Java System Active Server Pages 4.0 (http://www.sun.com/software/chilisoft/)

Apache ASP (http://www.apache-asp.org/support.html)

[vaibhav24in]

Why learn ASP? It's not as popular, portable, or powerful as PHP. Python's rather nice too, although it would probably be a lot harder to learn than PHP.
I have started paying attention to PHP also on your suggestion. Thanks for the advice

[vaibhav24in]

No. It's available as part of Windows XP Professional or Windows Server 2003, and is no longer available for download.
Yes it is no longer available for download.

[codeexploiter]

I would suggest downloading XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html) if you are working on Windows platform.

This package integrates PHP, Apache and MySQL and it is available as a single Exe file execute the file and that will install all the above mentioned item without any difficulty.

[vaibhav24in]

I would suggest downloading XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html) if you are working on Windows platform.

This package integrates PHP, Apache and MySQL and it is available as a single Exe file execute the file and that will install all the above mentioned item without any difficulty. Thanks a lot