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Subject: Re: asp/aspx support for Javascript in Apache?
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.asp is active server pages, .aspx is .net active server pages.

These are nearly always written in vb.script or C#

You might want to have a look at mono, and instant asp
http://www.go-mono.com
http://www.halcyonsoft.com/

I've not used either. We run a hardend NT box just for this stuff, but 
I've heard good things about these products. YMMV

Bob

David Wolfskill wrote:
> Sorry if this is too elementary; I haven't had occasion to do much in
> the way of anything too exotic with Apache -- mostly, it just works.
> 
> But now my boss wants to host an organization that has pages with URLS
> like http://..../Catalog.aspx, and whose contents include
> 
> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
> 
> 
> I gather that the *.aspx "extension" is intended to denote something
> called "Active Server Pages".  And the only support I find for that in
> the ports collection is in www/p5-Apache-ASP; its pkg-descr says:
> 
> 
>     This perl module provides an Active Server Pages port to the Apache HTTP
>     Server with perl as the host scripting language. Active Server Pages is
>     a web application platform that originated with the Microsoft IIS
>     server. Under Apache for both Win32 and Unix, it allows a developer to
>     create dynamic web applications with session management and perl code
>     embedded in static html files.
> 
>     This is a portable solution, similar to ActiveState PerlScript and MKS
>     PScript implementation of perl for IIS ASP. Work has been done and will
>     continue to make ports to and from these other implementations as smooth
>     as possible.
> 
>     This module works under the Apache HTTP Server with the mod_perl module
>     enabled. See http://www.apache.org and http://perl.apache.org for
>     further information.
> 
>     For database access, ActiveX, and scripting language issues, please read
>     the FAQ section.
> 
> WWW: http://www.nodeworks.com/asp/
> 
> -- Igor
> igor@zynaps.ru
> 
> [end of pkg-descr]
> 
> That doesn't look like an especially good match to me.  :-{
> 
> Further, the above-cited FAQ entry reads:
> 
> VBScript or JScript supported?
> 
> Yes, but not with this Perl module. For ASP with other scripting
> languages besides Perl, you will need to go with a commercial vendor in
> the UNIX world. Sun and Stryon have such solutions. Of course on Windows
> NT and Windows 2000, you get VBScript for free with IIS.
> 
>   Sun ONE Active Server Pages (formerly Sun Chili!Soft ASP)
> 
>   Instant ASP from Stryon (formerly Halcyon Software)
> 
> [end of FAQ excerpt]
> 
> which sounds downright discouraging.  :-(
> 
> 
> So:  would anyone care to offer clues as to how to support ASP using
> Javascript as a scripting language under FreeBSD, preferably using
> Apache as the Web server?
> 
> Thanks,
> david