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What is ASP?
ASP is a simple way to have your web pages interact with users and databases. Besides ease of use, the main advantage to using ASP is that the script contained in an ASP page is executed (run) on the server. Most scripts execute through the browser, making browser compatibility quite a challenge. ASP eliminates many script-oriented browser compatibility problems. The parts of the code that are to be executed on the server are enclosed within "<%" and "%>" tags. These symbols are referred to as the delimiters for ASP. TIP: When a delimiter tag is left off, you will get the following error: The above error is usually caused by not closing your scripting tag. Many editors now color-code your blocks of code and let you know if you forgot to close a tag. Some recommended HTML editors are Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft FrontPage, and Adobe Go Live, to name a few. However, the best development platform for ASP is probably Microsoft's Visual Interdev. ASP files must end with a .asp extension in order to be processed by the server. Because ASP files were meant to deliver HTML files, you can include normal HTML tags inside of your ASP files.
You have Linux servers, I thought ASP only worked on Microsoft based servers. Originally this was true, ASP was designed to run on Microsoft Servers using IIS. However, Microsft licensed Chili!Soft to write a program that would allow ASP to run on non-Microsoft servers. By installing Chili!Soft on our servers, we have brought together the ease of ASP and the reliability of Linux.
Where can I learn more about ASP? There are many places on the web to learn about ASP. A few good places to start are:
Please remember that we don't have the resources to teach our customers how to use ASP. However, if you would like a quote on your ASP project, please contact our Sales Department.
Do I need to do anything to enable ASP on my website? If you have signed up for our Basic plan or higher, ASP is automatically enabled.
Do I need special software to create ASP pages? No. As with HTML, you can create ASP pages using Notepad, FrontPage, Drumbeat, Visual InterDev, or many other editors.
Do you support Visual InterDev? Yes. We support the design of your web site with Visual InterDev. Specific design-time components such as custom .dll's are not supported.
No, we do not have the required Drumbeat components installed, although you can still use Drumbeat to create and publish your web pages.
What COM Components do you support? Please review our hosting plans to see which components are available with different account plans.
Do you support custom COMs and DLLs? No, we do not allow the installation of custom DLLs on any of our shared web servers. One of the reasons our pricing is so competitive is that we don't maintain the staff that would be required to monitor and audit custom components to ensure our web servers' performance and integrity. One poorly written component can bring a whole web server, or even a whole network, to its knees. If custom COM objects are a requirement for your web site, you may want to move up to a dedicated server. For more information about dedicated servers, please email Sales@CharlestonSolutions.com.
Do you offer the latest browscap.ini file? Yes, when a new version of the browscap.ini browser compatibility file is released, we install it on our servers.
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