Running Classic ASP Applications on IIS 7 and IIS 8

Classic ASP Not Installed by Default on IIS 7.0 and IIS 7.5

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Published on February 19, 2009 by Robert McMurray

In IIS the classic version of ASP is not installed by default. Because of this, you might see HTTP 404 errors when you try to browse to an ASP page on your server, or you might see the source code ...

Using Classic ASP with Microsoft Access Databases on IIS

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Published on February 19, 2009 by Robert McMurray

Note : Microsoft Access databases have been popular for many years with developers who use Active Server Pages (ASP) for small-scale applications, but Microsoft Access databases are not designed fo...

Using Failed Request Tracing to troubleshoot Classic ASP errors

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Published on February 19, 2009 by Robert McMurray

One of the great troubleshooting features that is built in to IIS 7.0 and above is Failed Request Tracing, which lets you configure tracing rules on your server that will create detailed troublesho...

Classic ASP parent paths are disabled by default

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Published on February 19, 2009 by Robert McMurray

Classic ASP Parent Paths let developers use relative addresses that contain ".." in the paths to files or folders. For example, the following code excerpt illustrates an ASP page that maps a parent...

APPL_PHYSICAL_PATH Server Variable on Windows Vista RTM

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Published on February 19, 2009 by Robert McMurray

The original release of IIS 7.0 that shipped with Windows Vista returned a different value for the APPL_PHYSICAL_PATH server variable than that which was returned by previous or subsequent versions...

Classic ASP Applications on IIS 7.0 and IIS 7.5 Overview

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Published on November 4, 2009 by Robert McMurray

Microsoft introduced Active Server Pages (ASP) over a decade ago with the release of Internet Information Server 3.0 for Windows Server NT 4.0. This method of writing server-side scripts by using V...

Scenario: Build a Classic ASP Website on IIS

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Published on April 14, 2013 by

This document guides you through installing IIS and configuring a classic ASP website. Classic ASP is a server-side scripting environment that you can use to create and run dynamic web applications...