ASP: For Beginners

We often say that ASP is not a language, although it seems that ASP code is already in the form of scripts. Microsoft defines ASP as a script language execution environment. In this execution environment, there can be two types of ASP code, one is VBScript and the other is JScript. The two are supported by ASP by default.

Of course, you can also use other scripting languages. All you need to do is to install ActiveX Scripting in this language.

For example, if you are very good at using the Perl language, you can use perlscript for ASP development. In addition to some simple and basic requirements, you can easily use ASP technology for website development without using other tools.

Because ASP scripts strictly follow the ASCII file format, you can design your ASP pages without any special tools. However, before designing an ASP page, we need to run a server that supports ASP technology so that we can browse the ASP page. In other words, you cannot try to open a browser to read an ASP content from your local htlm page.

So what server environments can ASP run in? Windows NT, 95, and 98 run Internet Information Server (IIS) or personal Web Server (PWS ). the latest ASP technology version is included in IIS 4 (NT Option Pack 4.

If you are using NT server, you need to install NT Option Pack 4 and start IIS in your system.

If you are using an NT Workstation or Windows 95/98 operating system, you need to install a personal Web server, which is technically simple IIS. However, it allows you to run ASP offline on your own machine.

Even if you have no experience in web services, PWS is still very easy to use. Install PWS and you will get a base 127.1.1.1/site for testing. If you are using an operating system like non-nt, click the link below: http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/recommended/NT4OptPk/default.asp
Windows NT Option Pack. download the patch pack.