Hi,
When I say I'm an ASP beginner, I mean it! I've only written one trivial bit of code, and got a blank page. I see now that's described in the article snippet below. I did indeed go to the saved .asp page on my hard drive!
So my questions:
I have XP, so IIS is presumably installed. In the snippet below, are 'localhost' and c:\inetpub\wwwroot the actual strings to type in? For example, I currently don't have a folder called "inetpub". Do I have to create one? And where on my actual server (starman.co.uk) should I put any ASP pages?
Alternatively, is there a good introductory book you can recommend?
- When you create an ASP page, you cannot view it on your hard disk by
going to C:MyWebmyasppage.asp. It won't work! That references a direct
page on your hard disk, and the server doesn't get a chance to parse
any of the ASP code.
- If you have IIS installed, it means your PC is a server (even if your
PC is the only one which can access it)! You can access the pages on
the server at
http://localhost/ or http://PCName/.
The physical location of your web site is by default C:\inetpub\wwwroot.
Save your ASP pages there, and view them in a browser by visiting the
URLs above.