Yeah, basically the topic..... im wondering of the pros and cons of installing Apache:ASP so ASP works on my linux server.

Thank You

No, no one will use it and those that do will give you endless problems. It doesnt support COM and has loads of other compatibilty issues, in addition now no one will develop from scratch in "Classic ASP", its dead. Its written in Perl, and as far as I know each request has to be converted/interpret every time.

If you want to do ASP, do it on a Windows server. It works best in the native environment.

And ask yourself do you really need it in the first place?

Toonz, if you want to do ASP, as in actually programming it (rather than hosting it), STOP!

Read up on ASP.Net and the .Net project. No point learning a technology which is outdated, doesnt scale well and has no plans for revisions, you can't do much with ASP unless you unleash COM hell.

I know I sound like an ASP basher, but I did write a whole site (HostInvestigator) in ASP once, and believe me the limitations quickly turn into frustrations. .Net on the other hand; I 'm probably it's best fan!

mattf:

wut do u think about isapi dlls written directly in c++? how does it compare to .net ?

Haha relax guys !

Im just curious as usual, and wanted to know the pros and cons of it.

Im wondering, can a common default Linux server support ASP.Net files ?

And no, i dont want to learn ASP :)

I currently do ISAPI DLL using Delphi but I guess it be the same with C++. ISAPI are loaded to the web server and becomes an integral part of the web server.

ASP.NET allows you to separate business logics (in ISAPI DLL) from web interface (ASP/HTML).

Speed wise it should probably be the space. It is really just an issue of speeding up development time. At least that's how I see it.

Originally posted by ToOnZ
Haha relax guys !

Im just curious as usual, and wanted to know the pros and cons of it.

Im wondering, can a common default Linux server support ASP.Net files ?

And no, i dont want to learn ASP :)

ASP.NET on Windows allows you to hinge on the strength of windows. On Linux itself, you probably will not be able to get the same benefits.

No, a common default Linux server will not handle ASP.NET or ASP since that is a Microsoft technology and thus works on Windows only.

There is an Open Source group which are working on a .NET implementation on Linux but it sure is a long way before it is up to prime time.

actually the mono development has been very fast if you write with mono in mind you can easily use it.

here is a link to there class status page
http://www.go-mono.com/class-status.html

I would say aprox 90% of it has been done already in some way shape or form :o