Web-Server : ASP Upgrade

Today's webpages become more and more interactive, and are used to
process data (like: placing orders).
This requires Server-based processing, which was in the early days
of the Internet usually a CGI-script, written in Perl or C.

On a Microsoft Webserver, Microsoft has introduced:
"Active Server Pages (ASP)", which use Visual Basic Scripting.

The version of Peer-Webserver provided with NT4-Workstation is not
able to process ASP-pages, even if you allowed in the Properties of
the WWW-service the Access: "Execute":

on trying to process an ASP-webpage, Internet Explorer will display the error message: "Error 501/505 - Not Implemented or not Supported"

But the Webserver can be upgraded for ASP-processing.
This upgrade was provided on the NT-ServicePack 3 CD-ROM
(sorry, I am not aware of any download URL for this) :

On the NT4 ServicePack 3 CD-ROM in the directory \IIS\ASP, run the "ASPSETUP.BAT"

The installation begins with opening a Command-box and them extracting
files. Accept the License agreement:




Allow the installation to "stop" the currently cunning services:

	You can select some installation options: If you are not planing to connect via ASP to a database, you do not need to install ODBC-drivers. If you do not need the Online-Documentation (because you are already familiar with ASP) or if you are short in disk-capacity, you can choose NOT to install the documentation.
	Done
	The Webservices need to be restarted, which would happen on the next reboot. Usually you would click here on "Yes" to restart the services.

Remember:

An HTML-page with Server-Based scripting requires the "Execute" access permission: