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The document discusses setting up Internet Information Server (IIS) and using Active Server Pages (ASP) without IIS. It provides details on creating ASP pages using Notepad or other development tools like Visual InterDev and Microsoft FrontPage. The document also describes the GLOBAL.ASA file, which plays a central role in managing ASP applications by defining how object events are handled and allowing creation of component objects with application or session scope.

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ASP Material 01

The document discusses setting up Internet Information Server (IIS) and using Active Server Pages (ASP) without IIS. It provides details on creating ASP pages using Notepad or other development tools like Visual InterDev and Microsoft FrontPage. The document also describes the GLOBAL.ASA file, which plays a central role in managing ASP applications by defining how object events are handled and allowing creation of component objects with application or session scope.

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The root physical address determines the starting physical


directory. For example, if you set the root physical address to
C:\InetPub\wwwroot as shown in the Figure. The following virtual
address
http://yourServer/default.asp
http://yourServer/datetime/CurrentTime.asp
would translate to the following physical address
C:\InetPub\wwwrootyour\default.asp
C:\InetPub\wwwroot\datetime\CurrentTime.asp
It is a convention to use InetPub\wwwroot as your Web’s root
Figure: To edit the Web site’s properties, visit the Advance pane.

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 Setting Up Internet Information Server


Internet Information Server (IIS) is Microsoft’s professional Web
server. The latest version of IIS is 5.0, which ships with Windows
2000.ASP 3.0 ships with IIS 5.0 and is installed automatically
when IIS 5.0 is installed.
If you are running Windows NT Server, you need to use IIS 4.0 IIS
4.0 can be found on the Windows NT Option Pack 4.0

 Using ASP Without IIS or PWS


Because Microsoft’s Web servers only run on the various Microsoft
Windows products, you may think that if you want to use ASP
pages, you must use IIS or PWS as your Web server. This is not
the case, however, thanks to a couple of companies that have
created software to allow ASP pages to run on various Web
servers and platforms.
One of these products in Halcyon Software’s Instant ASP, often
abbreviated as iASP. Another such product, created by Chili!Soft,
is Chili!ASP. These products can run on many non-IIS Web servers,
such as the following:
 Apache
 Sun Web Server
 Java Web Server
 Netscape Enterprise Server
These products can also run on a number of platforms, including
 Linux
 Sun Solaris

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 Apple Mac OS
 IBM/AIX
Creating ASP Pages
To create ASP pages, you need access to a computer with a Web
server that supports Active Server Pages technology. Microsoft
Web Server: Personal Web Server and Internet Information Server.
After you have a Web server installed, you can create ASP pages
in your Web site’s root physical directory, or in subdirectories of
the root physical directory, and view the result of these ASP pages
through a standard Web browser. Because ASP pages are
processed completely on the server-side and only return HTML to
the client, any Web browser can be used to view ASP pages. There
are no restrictions on the client-side. ASP pages, like regular HTML
Web pages, are simply text files on the Web server. To create an
ASP page, all you really need, after you’ve installed the Web
server, is a text editor, such as Notepad. Creating an ASP page
that displays the square roots of the numbers between 1 and 10.

Listing: VBScript Code that Displays the Square Roots of


the Numbers Between 1 and 10
1.<%@ Language=VBScript %>
2.<% Option Explicit %>
3.<HTML><BODY>
4. <B>Square Roots</B><BR>
5. <%
6. Dim iLoop
7. For iLoop = 1 to 10

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8. Response.Write iLoop & “ : ” & Sqr(iLoop)

& “<BR>”
9. Next
10. %>
11. </BODY></HTML>

The code in Listing displays the square roots of the numbers


between 1 and 10, inclusive. Line 1 starts the ASP code with the
@LANGUAGE directive, Option Explicit statement – this requires
that all variables used in the ASP page be explicitly defined. Lines
3 and 4 contain the embedded HTML code. The line 5 begins
another ASP block, performing a For loop from 1 to 10. Line 8
displays both the current looping iteration and its square root. The
Sqr function, which generates the square root of a number,
Finally, lines 11 end the ASP page coding with more embedded
HTML. Now that you’ve typed this code into Notepad, you need to
save it as an ASP page. You would need to save the file as
SquareRoot.asp and place it in your root physical directory. Recall
that the root physical directory is specified by the
Web Site’s Properties dialog and defaults to C:\InetPub\wwwroot.
So, save the Notepad document in C:\InetPub\wwwroot (or
whatever your root physical directory is) and name is
SquareRoot.asp. Now, open up your browser of choice and enter
the following into the Address window:
http://machineName/SquareRoot.asp. Your browser should then
display SquareRoot.asp, whose output is shown in figure below.
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Figure: The Square Roots of first 10 natural numbers are


displayed.

Tools For Developing/Writing ASP Code

 Notepad :- Creating ASP pages using Notepad has advantages


and disadvantages. First, its advantages:
 Speed – Notepad is a small, efficient text editor. However,
you can create ASP pages with more advanced development
tools. Although these tools have their own advantages, they
require more disk space and memory and run slower than
Notepad.

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 Easy to use – Because Notepad doesn’t offer many options


(after all, its sole purpose is to server as a text editor). You
won’t find yourself reading help files.
When compared to the advanced development tools of today,
though, Notepad can seem lacking. Notepad’s disadvantages
are usually based on its lack of options and include the
following:
 No Web site maintenance – With Visual InterDev or
Microsoft FrontPage, you can manage your entire Web
site. With Notepad, you can only edit or create one file at a
time.
 No color-coded syntax – When using FrontPage and InterDev
different pieces of your code turn different colors. This
makes it easier to check for syntax errors in both HTML tags
and VBScript code
 No drag-and-drop Web page creation tools – Both InterDev
and FrontPage allow you to create the HTML aspects of a
Web page by simply dragging and dropping certain objects
and elements onto a Web page. With Notepad, you need to
have a good understanding of the HTML tags you plan on
using.

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 Using Visual InterDev :- Microsoft’s Visual InterDev servers


as a unified development editor. InterDev is most commonly
used, though, to manage Web sites. To manage a Web site with
Visual InterDev, the Web site must have FrontPage Server
Extensions installed. The files in your Web directory are shown
in a tree control in the right-hand pane in Visual InterDev. You
can double-click one of these files to edit it. Visual InterDev is a
rich editing environment, one that allows you to easily develop
ASP pages. Visual InterDev also adds a database application
interface, which can be helpful when you start creating ASP
pages that interact with databases

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 Using FrontPage :- As the popularity of the Web grew, several


HTML editors came out. One of these editors was Microsoft’s
FrontPage, a tool used by many Web developers to quickly build
professional-looking Web pages. FrontPage focuses on creating
HTML elements by allowing the user to simply type in the
contents of the Web page and drag and drop in images and
links to other Web pages. FrontPage removes the need to know
HTML tags by heart.
Although FrontPage may be useful for building HTML Web
pages, it has shortcomings when using it to design ASP pages.
You cannot simply drag and drop code, and because ASP pages
contain scripting code, you cannot create the code for ASP
pages as easily as you can create the HTML for a Web page.
Despite this limitation, FrontPage is still often used to create
Web pages. Developers use FrontPage’s GUI system to create
the HTML for a Web page and then view the HTML source of the
page created with FrontPage to add in the ASP code.

The ASP Project File : GLOBAL.ASA


As you start building ASP applications, the GLOBAL.ASA file will
play a central role in managing them. The .ASA file extension is
an acronym for Active Server Applications. The GLOBAL.ASA file
enables the management of two critical objects used to state
information in an ASP application. The advent of ASP gives
developers the ability to track user information from page to page
within a Web-based application. This tracking capability is

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essential to implement any Web-based workflow application.


When an application is first started, the GLOBAL.ASA file is loaded
into memory. This file is used to track application events and
individual user events, variables, and objects. The GLOBAL.ASA file
is an optional file, located in the root directory of any ASP
application, that relates directly to the Application and Session
objects. It has two purposes:
 To define how the object events are handled.
 To allow you to create component object instances with
application or session scope.
The GLOBAL.ASA file must be named GLOBAL.ASA and must
appear in the root directory of an ASP based application. Inside
the GLOBAL.ASA file there are two containers,
 The object container <OBJECT>
 The script container <SCRIPT>
Code is contained in within the <SCRIPT> and </SCRIPT> tags,
and object declaration are made between the <OBJECT> and
</OBJECT> tags.
The <OBJECT> tag has the following attributes:
<OBJECT RUNAT = Server SCOPE = Scope ID = identifier {PROGID
= “progID” | CLASSID = “ClassID” }>
Currently the only choice for the RUNAT attribute for both tags is
SERVER. Scope is either Application Session. The identifier is the
name assigned to the object created.
The <SCRIPT> tag has the following attributes:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE = scriptlanguage RUNAT = Server>

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ScriptLanguage can be any supported language. The Application


and Session objects each have two events:
 OnStart
 OnEnd
Object_Event is Application_OnStart, Application_OnEnd,
Session_OnStart, or Session_OnEnd.

Application Events
On start
On end

Session Events
On start
On end

Figure: The GLOBAL.ASA file manages Application and Session


objects.

The Firing Sequence if the GLOBAL.ASA File


 Application objects are created when the first user
connects to an ASP-based application and requests a
session.
 When the Application object is created, the server looks for the
GLOBAL.ASA file. If this file exists, the script for the
Application_OnStart event is processed.
 The sub routine within the Session_OnStart is then executed.
After which the .asp file that creates the HTML page is
executed.

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 Script in the GLOBAL.ASA file is executed before the page


request that triggers the object creation is processed.
 When the Session object times out or the Session.Abandon
method is called, the Session_OnEnd event is triggered.
 Code for the Session_OnEnd event in GLOBAL.ASA is processed
before the Session Object is destroyed.
 When the server shuts down, the Application_OnEnd event is
triggered. All sessions are destroyed and all Session_OnEnd
code is processed.
 Code for the Application_OnEnd event is the GLOBAL.ASA file is
then processed before the Application object is destroyed.
The whole file is really concerned with keeping track of how many
sessions have been started on the server.

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