Is there a small classic ASP server, such as the ASP.NET development server that ships with Visual Studio?

Question

I would like to hear if there is a small classic ASP server similar to the ASP.NET Development server that comes with Visual Studio?

We are a small group that supports an outdated (classic) ASP site and therefore would like to have a small server that can easily be run on a computer running Windows XP. We are currently tied to IIS 5.1 on our development machines (and because we have XP Pro, we cannot update IIS 6 or 7).

I tried installing the Cassini web server, but this does not seem to work with classic ASP.

Answer 1

Short answer: No, there is no small web server that runs classic ASP. There are many alternatives, as mentioned here, such as IIS or Apache plugins, but none of them have a similar small size, such as ASP.NET Development Server, which comes with Visual Studio and supports debugging.

Answer 2

You won’t get anything extra from ASP by working on IIS 6 or 7. Do you have any special problems with jams in IIS 5.1?

Answer 3

There is a small web server that runs classic ASP.

Its called the web server Abyss. The Abyss web server is available from the Aprelium software and can be downloaded free of charge. The Abyss web server can be configured to work with ASP.net OR Classic ASP.

The server can be configured to run ASP.net without any additional downloads.

To run Classic ASP on the server, you need to download and configure a program called ActiveHTML written by Selisoft to allow the launch of classic ASP on the Abyss web server. Active HTML is on a 45-day free trial, and if you like it, the purchase price currently ranges from 30 to 40 euros, depending on whether you need a client or server version.

Hope this helps.

Anthony

Answer 4

Have you tried Baby Web Server? - http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html/baby_web_server.html

Answer 5

The Abyss web server http://www.aprelium.com/ supports classic ASP (also ASP.Net, Ruby and PHP) with a third-party extension, the cost of which is $$$. But at some point a free version of a third-party component appeared, you MAY find a copy of what is still floating. Not sure about debugging.

Answer 6

Baby ASP Web Server can take care of you, PLUS, you do not need to install it, so it does not jump all kinds of crazy settings into your registry.

Get it here

Answer 7

Your only real choice is to either start a Windows server or Vista to get the latest version of IIS.

Cassini does not support classic asp.

Answer 8

According to this post it is not possible to run ASP on Cassini. A few google searches later I still could not find other alternatives.

What functionality are you using? If these are quick and fast VS functions, you can easily do debugging of the debug IDE in IIS (although ASP cannot technically be "debugged" - what you really do is just launch it using the command Ctrl+F5 ).

Answer 9

Here is a website that allows you to run classic ASP pages from any web server (including IIS and Apache), but it costs money:

http://www.selisoft.com/en/ahtml/index.phtml