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Unit 7: Introduction to ASP (Active Server Pages)

2. The programmatic code can be written in a number of ……………… Notes
3. In the early days of the World Wide Web, HTML was used to create static ………………
4. Asp page contain embedded ………………
5. Most ASP pages are created using VBScript as it has the most English-like syntax of the
four scripting languages and is similar to ………………

7.2 Installing Internet Information Server (IIS)

Internet Information Server (IIS) is Microsoft’s professional Web server. The latest version of IIS
is 5.0 which ships with Windows 2000. To install IIS 5.0 following steps are done:
 Choose start, programs, administrative tools, configure your server.
 A dialog box appears that has several configuration options in the left pane. Choose the
bottommost option from the left pane labeled Advanced.
 On clicking this four new options appear: Cluster service, Message Queuing, Support
Tools and Optional Components. Click the last option. In the right hand pane, a description
of the Option Components option appears, as well as a hyperlink labeled start.
 Click the Start hyperlink-this launches the Windows Components Wizard. Through this
wizard you can install or uninstall optional components. Scroll down till the Internet
Information Services (IIS) option is seen.

 To decide what IIS components to install, click IIS components in the Windows 2000
Components Wizard and then click the Details button. A list of components that can be
installed with IIS is displayed.
 Common Files, Documentation, Internet Information Services Snap-In and World Wide
Web Server should surely be selected.

 After the selection of all the IIS subcomponents that are to be installed, click OK, which
takes you back to the Windows 2000 Components Wizard.
 To start installing IIS 5.0, click the Next button. When the installation is complete, one can
access the Internet Services Manager.

Task In a group try to install IIS practically into your systems
7.2.1 Using ASP without IIS or PWS

ASP Pages can run even without IIS or PWS as your Web server. A couple of companies have
created software to allow ASP pages to run on various Web servers and platforms.
One of these products is Halcyon Software’s Instant ASP, abbreviated as iASP. Another product
created Chili! Soft, is Chili! ASP. These products can run on many non-IIS Web servers as the
following:

 Apache
 Sun Web Server
 Java Web Server
 Netscape Enterprise Server

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