coding on servers

[benbacardi]

hi guys sorry to post so much

ive just got some hosting with ithium.net and my asp code does not run correctly on it - its fine on my free host and on my own machine but this server doesn't like it. does anyone know why?

[Webforumz Staff]

All the hosting plans I see them offering look they're on *nix machines running apache, and thus wouldn't support ASP.

[benbacardi]

o...k....

the guy who owns the hosting is a m8 of mine, and im sure he said it supported ASP

[Webforumz Staff]

Try just a simple asp page like putting <%= now() %> in the body of a blank html page and naming it test.asp. If that works then the server supports ASP, if not it's the server.

But like I said, if your hosting supports ASP then it's not one of the publicized packages (unless he mistakenly thought you said JSP or PHP)

[Rob]

Many linux hosts support ASP....
ASP for linux and ASP for windows boxes may on the face of it look very similar.... after all the syntax is the same and the language 'ASP' infered by linux boxes and 'ASP' infered by windows are supposed to be the same thing... and indeed are.

The thing is however, I have yet to find a script that when dropped onto linux just 'works' as is..... invariably there are some modifications to make... especially when the scripts make use of com objects, such as the FileSYstemObject or indeed any COM objects... including ADODB (database) connection objects.

Good luck with Linux...... it aint for me.

[benbacardi]

thanks rob

i found out it only supports Apache::ASP which is not exactly the same - so now im intending to learn PHP :S and re-write it

lol

[Webforumz Staff]

And that's easier than just finding another host?

[benbacardi]

its cheaper and the website (www.bpcu.co.uk) is for a non-profit "organisation" (lol) which i'm a member of, so its not really got the funds for a host. the host we had which doesnt support asp do free hosting for christian websites.