How to tell if my server provides ASP hosting ability.

So i want to learn ASP, i go to a tutorial...I'm uploading the "hello world" initial file, but the web page is blank (although it does have the <title></title> i provided)

Here is the code, so basic....

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 <body>
 
<%

Response.Write("Hello World!")

%>
 
</body>

here is the header....

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<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>

But i get nothing....and when I view source, i get this...

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 <%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

<title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>
 
<body>
 
<%

Response.Write("Hello World!")

%>
 
</body>

</html>

Awesome! (not). Anyway, also, I am using Dreamweaver and, although i've NEVER used ASP, the "<%" im wrapping my code in doesn't change color after I type it. I'm not saying it's suppose to, but when i use php, I know the "<?php" turns bold red. The "Response.Write" however, does turn purple. Just thought maybe DW wasn't recognizing the code wrapper for some reason.

And yes, the extension on the page is .asp

Anyway, how do i know for sure my server can handle ASP, i can't find anything to say it on the hosting company's site (directnic.com).

Let me know...

thanks.

Oct 13 '07 #1

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jhardman

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There are a couple possible explanations, let's eliminate them individually. I am assuming you are hosting on the same computer from which you are browsing, right? What did you type into the address bar? (does the address start with "localhost" or "c:/" ?)

Jared

Oct 18 '07 #2

movieking81

Hello,

Any web hosting company worth it's salt should provide classic ASP support. Try changing the header to something like this...

<%@ Language=VBScript %>

ASP usually relies on VBScript so the header may be your problem.

Dean

Oct 18 '07 #3

jhardman

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Anyway, how do i know for sure my server can handle ASP, i can't find anything to say it on the hosting company's site (directnic.com).
.

Sorry, I missed that the first time. The code does look good, except for the javascript part as movieking suggested. ASP can be written in javascript, but you won't find many "jsp" experts anywhere. And I thought response.write looked different in javascript. hmm.

ASP is supported by microsoft servers, so if the server is IIS then it will have that capability, but the server might need to be set to run scripts on that directory. My experience has been that Apache servers don't run ASP by default and will actually need some added components to run them at all.

Although some hosts will have scripting turned on by default, most will not so you should definitely contact them and ask them 1- do they have that capability (if you already know what server program they are using you might be able to skip that question) and 2- could they please turn it on.

Jared

Oct 18 '07 #4

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