| Ted Byers 2004-01-19, 6:32 am |
| I have a bit of a problem.
I have the Apache2 + PERL (5.8 I think) running on Windows 2K.
I need to help a friend of mine who is developing an ASP project, but his
ASP is implemented using VBScript, which Apache doesn't understand. The
only way I see his files as they seem to be intended is if I access them
through localhost (to which apache is attached) using MS IE. I assume,
therefore, that his VBScript is being evaluated by IE. Now, all I was
supposed to do is fix a number of bugs. For this purpose, does it matter
whether the scripts are evaluated server-side or client-side? If it does,
can I get MS IIS (which is what my friend uses) to play nicely with Apache
by making a second virtual host in my hosts file (say localhost2 at
127.0.0.2) and having IIS use that (I have MS Visual Studio 6, and so I have
an older version of IIS - but while I have it I haven't used it).
Look, I know lots of people use IIS and lots of others use Apache. How can
I best set things up so that I can test things on both? I am looking at a
mix of ASP and cgi (using anything from C++ through PERL and php to Java),
maybe servlets and XML (and related technologies). I'd like to be able to
evaluate each of the web technologies as they appear to see what they can
add to what I'm doing. Almost everything I'll be working on related to the
web involves a relational database of some sort (MS Access and mysql are the
two I expect to be using the most, but there'll also be a few involving
IBM's DB\2), and much of it involves eCommerce.
Right now, I am stuck with a) the problem I describe above, and b) how to
set up a dirctory tree parallel to, not in, htdocs (for Apache) in which my
perl scripts can live (and similarly for my php scripts). For "b" I keep
getting a message saying that I don't have permission to access it. This
isn't much of an issue for my friend's project since he freely mixes all of
the project files into one directory (a practice I find quite irritating,
but they are his files and it is his project - and maybe, if the website
doesn't live on his own server, he may not have the liberty to separate his
scripts from his data).
Any information will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Ted
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