Object Required Error - ASP / Active Server Pages

Apostolis K.

At first I make a independend virtual directory wich I named app and I check
Directory Browsing in the Virtual Directory Properties. Then I create with
notepad global.asa and index.asp

global.asa
<OBJECT ID="objMyInfo" RUNAT="server" SCOPE="Applicat ion"
PROGID="MSWC.MY Info"></OBJECT>
<SCRIPT Language="VBScr ipt" RUNAT="server">
Sub Application_onS tart()
objMyInfo.vDail yBanner="The Big News Today is..."
Dim vMyVar
vMyVar="Some text stored in the Application"
Application("st oredtext")=vMyV ar
End Sub
</SCRIPT>
index.htm
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Sh owing Application Variables</TITLE>/HEAD>
<BODY>
<H2>The Daily Banner Headlines</H2>
<%
objMyInfo.vDail yBanner="My Personal News is"
vDayBan=objMyIn fo.vDailyBanner
Response.Write( vDayBan)&":"
vMVr=Applicatio n.Contents("sto redtext")
Response.Write( vMVr)&"<BR>"
%>
</BODY>
</HTML>

I browse into the directory with Internet Explorer and I click index.asp.
Unfortunately I get the following error.

Error Type:
Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A01A8)
Object required: ''
/app/index.asp, line 6

I am an ASP Begginer. I wrote all these based into an ASP Begginers book.
I tried lots of times and can't get what is wrong.
I hope you can help me.
PS1: My platform information is: Windows XP Pro, IIS 5.1, IE6

Jul 19 '05 #1

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Aaron Bertrand [MVP]

> I browse into the directory with Internet Explorer and I click index.asp.

First of all, don't do that. To run an ASP page, you *TYPE* the URL into
the browser, e.g. http://localhost/index.asp

objMyInfo.vDail yBanner="The Big News Today is..."
Can you explain why you think you need the MyInfo component to store text in
application scope?
PS1: My platform information is: Windows XP Pro, IIS 5.1, IE6

Also, from http://www.aspfaq.com/2413, which describes this error:

Active Server Pages, ASP 0134 (0x80004005)
The object has an invalid ProgID of 'MSWC.MyInfo'

"This can happen if you try to use the default global.asa that ships with
IIS 5.1 on Windows XP. XP doesn't ship with the MSWC.MyInfo object by
default, so the best solution is to rename the global.asa so it stops
causing problems. In the default web root, you really don't need a
global.asa anyway... and if you do, it should be a lot more barebones than
that one. "

--
Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
http://www.aspfaq.com/

Jul 19 '05 #2

Apostolis K.

>First of all, don't do that. To run an ASP page, you *TYPE* the URL into

the browser, e.g. http://localhost/index.asp
Ok I type the URL directly but the result is the same
objMyInfo.vDai lyBanner="The Big News Today is..."
Can you explain why you think you need the MyInfo component to store text
in application scope?
I have no idea. The book sais so. The idea is to show how to retrieve data
and variables from global.asa and it was supposed to work

"This can happen if you try to use the default global.asa that ships with
IIS 5.1 on Windows XP. XP doesn't ship with the MSWC.MyInfo object by
default, so the best solution is to rename the global.asa so it stops
causing problems. In the default web root, you really don't need a
global.asa anyway... and if you do, it should be a lot more barebones than
that one. "

There is not a global.asa inside the default web root. However do I have to
put my own global.asa to the default web root in order to work?

Jul 19 '05 #3

Aaron Bertrand [MVP]

Scrap the stupid MyInfo code.

Global.asa:

<script language=vbscri pt runat=server>
sub application_ons tart
application("fo o") = "splunge"
end sub
</script>

Any ASP page within the same site/application folder:

<%=application( "foo")%>

If this doesn't work, see

No offense to ASP authors who may be lurking, but ASP books are typically
the worst place to learn how to code in ASP (this includes the ASP books to
which I've contributed). They are almost exclusively comprised of
inefficient and/or non-working examples that demonstrate superfluous,
non-realistic and non-real-world scenarios.

Better to peruse some web sites, where you might not always escape the
above, but you'll find some good examples as well -- and they won't all be
obsolete. Here are some starting points:

http://www.aspfaq.com/2183

--
Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
http://www.aspfaq.com/

Jul 19 '05 #4

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