IIS Asp issues

[qaidskey]

I recently installed IIS (internet information server) on my XP pro computer. I did this to test out some asp files to see if i could make em right. Unfortunately i can't seem to get Asp to work...at all. So if anyone can help me out, that would be great.

[Gaylan Carl]

Hi Qaidskey, welcome to Cybertechhelp :),

do you know what language you are writing your ASP pages in? are they linked properly (like if they are referring to a directory....)

that type of thing, also, make sure that you have the server started ;) sometimes the simplest things get ya'.

[qaidskey]

they're not linked right now. im just trying a very simple thing. like hello world, or showing the date, but it doesn't work. i don't know what u mean by languages, but im writing in ASP <% xxxxxx %> not asp.net if thats what u mean. and as far as i know my server is started, though i heard when searching for help on this that iis adds an icon to your taskbar, no such thing with me (and im using 5.1 if that matters) so if i need to enable that or if thats a help with this, im gonna need help doing so. and besides the restart thing i can't find anything on just "starting" the server in the documents or in computer management.

[Gaylan Carl]

by what language i meant VBscript or javascript ;) also, it never put an icon in my tray, and i'm using it now :) i'll look into this to see if i can dig up anything more.

[qaidskey]

ah. vbscript for sure. and they icon tray thing maybe from an older version. btw. how can i make sure that the server is on, or started?

[Gaylan Carl]

you would go into administrative tools, click on the IIS icon, and once it opens, expand Computer Name, then websites, you'll see a thing called "default web site" unless you named it different, click on it, and if "Start" is dulled out, it is started. if not, click it and you'll have a "fully" functioning webserver ;) (I only say it that was because MS is inferior to Linux in webserver technology ;) )

[qaidskey]

well. turns out it was on. so thats not the problem. are there any filters i should have, or any programs i should use to configure this?

[qaidskey]

well i got it to work. yes its official i am an idiot. but never mind that. if it is necessary ill tell what happened. but now i get an error on the page that says: "error: unable to read footer file"

and i have no idea why. so if ne one can help with this. i would be much obliged.

[smurfy]

Without seeing the .asp file it's hard to tell but it sounds like whatever page it is expecting to load as the page footer eitehr doesn't exist or is not a compatible file.

[qaidskey]

lol. im truly dense. in one of my sad attempts to get the asp thing to work i did something to a footer option through the IUSR_MACHINE thing. but thats fixed now too.