The Netride - ASP FrontPage Issues

Some FrontPage Issues

The assumption is that the Personal Web Server is running and you can see the PWS icon on the task bar.

Know your server's name Start FP Explorer and load your web. In the folders view, you will see the url of the web in the top left hand corner. For example, my machine is called desktop so mine says http://desktop. What does your say? You must know the name of your server.

Set the properties for the web RIGHT CLICK on that web and choose properties and tick the box that allows scripts to be run. This is an important step for any web you create.

View the page in a browser Open up one of the .asp pages in the FP Editor by double clicking on the ASP filename. From within the FP Editor, choose Preview in Browser from the Toolbar - NOT the Preview tab at the bottom of the FP Editor window. The default browser on your machine will start and run an http request to the server for the page. In the address slot of the browser you will see the address of the page eg. http://desktop/getinfo.asp. You cannot run an .asp page by clicking File \| Open in your browser. ASP pages must be processed by the server so you must type http://servername/pagename.asp to run the page.

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