How do I set my local copy of IIS so that I can view my ASP pages?

[John]

One of the things I've never figured out is how to view an ASP page on
my own computer.

I always have to upload it to the server, then view the page over the
Internet.

I assume there's a way to do this, and hopefully, I won't feel as much
of an idiot as I did earlier today when I found out how easy one of my
questions was. (I did some experimenting a month or so ago, but nothing
worked, then I dropped worrying about it since I could work-it-around.)

John
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[Paxton]

John wrote:

One of the things I've never figured out is how to view an ASP page on
my own computer.

I always have to upload it to the server, then view the page over the
Internet.

I assume there's a way to do this, and hopefully, I won't feel as much
of an idiot as I did earlier today when I found out how easy one of my
questions was. (I did some experimenting a month or so ago, but nothing
worked, then I dropped worrying about it since I could work-it-around.)

John

http://www.webwizguide.com/asp/tutor..._winXP_pro.asp

/P.

[www.MessageMazes.com]

> > One of the things I've never figured out is how to view an ASP page on

http://www.webwizguide.com/asp/tutor..._winXP_pro.asp

Thanks, Paxton, that got me started.

Now, I can go to "http://localhost/amazing.asp" but I get this error:

Error Type:
Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A004C)
Path not found
/amazing.asp, line 149

I checked, and line 149 is trying to open a file in a subdirectory.
Here's the line:

set f=fs.OpenTextFile(Server.MapPath(zfil),8,true)

and zfil was previously defined:
zfil="host-IPs/amaz"&right(year4,2)&month2&".txt"

I have created "host-IPs" as a subdirectory under the one in which
amazing.asp resides.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

John

[www.MessageMazes.com]

(I forgot to add:)

This page works properly on the Internet.
It's just not working here on my computer.

One of the things I've never figured out is how to view an ASP page on

http://www.webwizguide.com/asp/tutor..._winXP_pro.asp

Thanks, Paxton, that got me started.

Now, I can go to "http://localhost/amazing.asp" but I get this error:

Error Type:
Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A004C)
Path not found
/amazing.asp, line 149

I checked, and line 149 is trying to open a file in a subdirectory.
Here's the line:

set f=fs.OpenTextFile(Server.MapPath(zfil),8,true)

and zfil was previously defined:
zfil="host-IPs/amaz"&right(year4,2)&month2&".txt"

I have created "host-IPs" as a subdirectory under the one in which
amazing.asp resides.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

This page works properly on the Internet.
http://mazes.com/asp-maze/amazing.asp

It's just not working here on my computer.

John

[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

www.MessageMazes.com wrote:

One of the things I've never figured out is how to view an ASP page
on

http://www.webwizguide.com/asp/tutor..._winXP_pro.asp

Thanks, Paxton, that got me started.

Now, I can go to "http://localhost/amazing.asp" but I get this error:

Error Type:
Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A004C)
Path not found
/amazing.asp, line 149

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[Letterfly]

Thanks, Bob,

I tried some of the things you suggested at
http://www.aspfaq.com/search.asp?q=8...Days=0&order=1
that seemed to apply to my situation, but the stuff I tried didn't
work.

HOWEVER ... I'm no longer in need of the solution, as I've developed a
work around. I set up a test category so that I can do a test with
"cat=test" and it will merely skip those statements.

If you're curious, the whole system is on a self-contained IBM Thinkpad
laptop, no network, no externals, if that made any difference to the
second question, but as I said, I no longer need that answer, as I've
written and tested the workaround. (Wish I'd thought of it days ago.)

Many thanks to all for answering my original question ... I am now able
to view ASP pages locally, as long as they don't use subdirectories,
and I am 111.1% satisfied with this group. (how do I put a bar over the
decimal??? <grin>)

John