Apache - ASP

I'm sorry if this is a useless post.

i'm new to asp, i don't want to us the IIS server. i want to use
apache.

but i've done a few searches and i have only been able to come up with
asp - perl.

i.e. i can only do asp with perl scripting in apache.

what i want to know is. i currently run on a windows system is it
possible to create asp pages with vb/c# under apache. or am i limited
to perl. and would have to install and use IIS to use vb/c#.



thank you for any replies.

Hi!

Damnation wrote:
> I'm sorry if this is a useless post.
>
> i'm new to asp, i don't want to us the IIS server. i want to use
> apache.

I'd rather recommend looking at ASP.NET - as ASP "Classic" is quite
deprecated.

As for the Apache::ASP & Perl:

"Apache::ASP provides an Active Server Pages port to the Apache Web
Server with Perl scripting only, and enables developing of dynamic web
applications with session management and embedded Perl code."
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_...es#Apache::ASP

"VBScript or JScript supported?

Yes, but not with this Perl module. For ASP with other scripting
languages besides Perl, you will need to go with a commercial vendor in
the UNIX world. Sun and Stryon have such solutions. Of course on Windows
NT and Windows 2000, you get VBScript for free with IIS.
- Sun ONE Active Server Pages (formerly Sun Chili!Soft ASP)
- Instant ASP from Stryon (formerly Halcyon Software)"
// http://www.apache-asp.org/faq.html#V...0or%2007fa600d

http://www.instantasp.co.uk/

So in general, for free solution working on Windows IIS might be the
easiest way to go...

Note, that IIS usually is better (for both the development and
deployment) on Windows Server platform. Many things may get are going to
get quite interesting IIS 7 (Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008).
Therefore, you might want to look at Windows Server 2003 (currently
publically available is Beta 3), if you wish to learn/play with the new
technology:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/audsel.mspx

Another way would be perhaps looking at Mono, designed to bring the .NET
framework to the world of UNIX, Linux, MacOS X, etc...:

http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_General
http://www.mono-project.com/ASP.NET
http://www.mono-project.com/Mod_mono

Bear in mind that even though "Mono runs on Windows" -
http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:Windows - mod_mono is still rather a
work in progress as far as the Windows environment is concerned:
"Does mod_mono run on Windows?
- mod_mono at this point only runs on Unix systems. There is a patch (to
be reviewed) that makes mod_mono compile work on the Windows version of
Apache. "
http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_ASP.NET

Hope that helps,

Matt P. Dz.