Topic: Enabling VB Script

[Shawn Fenerty]

Does anyone know if you are able to use VB Script on the E-smith Server??? ie.  the front page server instructions iis.  Any help would be great.  Thanks

[schotty]

hmmm this could be an easy one to answer........

Front Page server comes from a small company called microsoft. I do belive that they have extensive support for all there products, including VB Script.

Have you asked your question there???

wow that would be something Visual Basic for Linux.........Come to think of it Windows for Linux......

Hmm maybe I should start a new project at sourceforge......


Oh yes I went a little of topic there.....I dont really think that you can use Microsoft VB on e-smith.........

So here we go again the subbject MS against e-smith is once again open.....

[Nathan Fowler]

First of all, I think you are talking about ASP, or Active Server Pages, not VBScript.  VBScript is parsed on the client end by Windows Scripting Host.  VBScript can be included in HTML pages regardless of the server operating system and architecture.  ASP, or Active Server Pages, which is a server-side scripting language, much like PHP, requires parsing software.  If you want to use ASP, there are several solutions for Linux, namely Sun's Chilisoft ASP (http://www.chilisoft.com), which I think has been renamed when Sun Microsystems bought them out.  This adds ASP functionality to the Apache server, however, it appears that you may be a newbie, if so, why not try to learn PHP instead of ASP?  If you are wanting to use Front Page Extensions, again, another scripting language, you can use Mod_Frontpage.  (http://freshmeat.net/projects/improvedmod_frontpage/?topic_id=250).

Hope this helped,
Nathan

[Shawn Fenerty]

Thanks for all your help, I was a little messed up I wanted to get FrontPage Extensions to work on the server. And yes I am a Total Newbie to Linux. I have downloaded the file.  Thanks for the links btw. but now I just need to figure out how to install the TGZ file and I'll be all the better

THanks alot people