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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":

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

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