ASP/Personal Web Server

[Karen E. Mitchell]

OK, I installed the Personal Web Server, but how do I get it to bring up

the ASP page under Netscape? I get the FrontPage 'default' page that
says
to 'put your home page here!' My ASPs are on my D drive and I do not
know
how to access them. Can you please help me?
Thanks,
Karen

[Kris R. Ballew]

I don't have my lap top handy (on which PWS is installed) so this
information may not be precise. So please forgive me if I make a mistake.
However, it works like this. To start you should look in Control Panel and
double click to initialize PWS Administration. There should be a link for
administering your WWW Service. Click it and then find and click on the
Directories link. A window will appear that will identify existing virtual
directories or you may create a new one by choosing Add at the bottom.
Select Add and a new page will appear with a Directory box. Enter the full
path to where you would like your to configure your ASP Application. For
example enter:
C:\MYASPDIR.(assuming this is a valid directory) Next down below you can
give your new website a virtual name such as /aspdemosite. At the very
bottom besure to enable Read and Execute permissions or your ASP pages will
not work. Then click OK. On one of the previous pages there was an option to
define your default startup file such as default.asp. I like index.asp.
Anyway copy all of your ASP files to C:\MYASPDIR then enter the following in
your web browser:
http://localhost/aspdemosite/
and press enter. Assuming you have a default.asp file the file will appear.
You could type any of the other asp files as well. Such as
http://localhost/aspdemosite/ myfile.asp

Besure to read the documention provided via a link on the PWS Administration
page and the ASP Roadmap and sample AdventureWorks Company Website, all of
which should be installed on your system with the ASP installation.

Also I believe you may be able to create a virtual directory (with the PWS
Administration Pages) with read and execute permissions enabled for the
directory in which your asp files already exist. Even if they are on a
different drive. Have fun.

Chow!