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#1 2003-01-30 8:58 pm
ASP on Mac
Is it possible to do ASP programing on Mac? Im thinking not, but hey who knows? Im taking over a site with nothing but HTML & ASP and database files constructed with access. My thinking would be to get the database into MySQL and get it working with PHP.
Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with ASP? I've looked arround but havent seen much from the mac point of view. To me it seems pretty locked down. Please also share any horror stories about ASP.
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#2 2003-01-31 12:52 pm
Re: ASP on Mac
There are no ASP server solutions for OS X that I'm aware of. Sun has software that allows ASP to run on an x86 server running linux:
http://wwws.sun.com/software/chilisoft/
But nothing listed for OS X.
You can write ASP in any text editor, just like HTML and PHP.
VBScript is a bit 'different' when it comes to structure and syntax when compared to languages such as C and PHP. In my experience with troubleshooting ASP code (I work for a webhosting company), I've found that bad ASP coding practices will bring down a high-traffic IIS server more quickly than bad PHP coding practices will bring down an Apache server.
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#3 2003-01-31 9:57 pm
Re: ASP on Mac
.ASP is the devil's work.
Someone here pointed out to me an app called ASP2PHP (http://asp2php.com/) Haven't tried it, but it's a good idea.
But if you are going to just be doing updates, I'll echo what Altivec said, you can very easily develop for an IIS server (.ASP) from a Mac. (I did it for over 2 years) That may be the best option if you don't want to rework the site.
Notes:
- You can install PHP on a windows server.
- Windows servers are a bad idea.
- Access databases for the web are a bad idea. (can't support the load)
- MySQL will run on a Win server.
My suggestion is to avoid ASP if you can. You have learn a fair amount to work with it simply because it is very different form every thing else in the world. And the install base grows smaller, so learning ASP is wasted storage space in your brain. I learned it at the last place I worked, and wish I never had, the only places that seem to use it are small operations or ones with little technical knowledge and just bought them because they were MS.
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