I have a friend that hosts a few basic ASP pages. some simple links and plays a few media files with Windows Media Player.
Is there any way I can host his site on my Linux Server? Without re- writing it for him....
-jason
ML wrote:
I have a friend that hosts a few basic ASP pages. some simple links and plays a few media files with Windows Media Player.
Is there any way I can host his site on my Linux Server? Without re- writing it for him....
it really depends on what those ASP pages are doing. ASP has access to the entire Windows object model, and now .NET Frameworks version 1.1,,2,3 too.
there's at least two ways of getting ASP support on linux, one is via Project Mono, and the other is via Sun Java Web Server 7 + their ASP module. http://asp-programming.suite101.com/article.cfm/running_asp_on_a_linux_serve...
ML wrote:
Is there any way I can host his site on my Linux Server? Without re- writing it for him....
There used to be a project called ChiliSoft ASP that did this, but it appears that Sun bought them and then killed the product.
As John R. Pierce noted, if his site is actually using ASP.NET, and not the old original ASP, it may be that Mono could help you, as long as his code isn't digging too deeply into Windows specifics.
If it does end up that you really need a rewrite, Apache::ASP runs fine on CentOS and uses the same sort of programming model:
It's not moved forward in quite a while, and it uses Perl as its programming language instead of Visual Basic, but it's perhaps got the the lowest barrier to entry for your friend.
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 08:26 -0600, Warren Young wrote:
ML wrote:
Is there any way I can host his site on my Linux Server? Without re- writing it for him....
There used to be a project called ChiliSoft ASP that did this, but it appears that Sun bought them and then killed the product.
As John R. Pierce noted, if his site is actually using ASP.NET, and not the old original ASP, it may be that Mono could help you, as long as his code isn't digging too deeply into Windows specifics.
If it does end up that you really need a rewrite, Apache::ASP runs fine on CentOS and uses the same sort of programming model:
It's not moved forward in quite a while, and it uses Perl as its programming language instead of Visual Basic, but it's perhaps got the the lowest barrier to entry for your friend.
I had great success converting ASP to PHP for a rather large site. There are some tools out there that help with the process, but you have to look at what they produce, and occassionally fix some code manually.
Rich
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Warren Young wrote:
ML wrote:
Is there any way I can host his site on my Linux Server? Without re- writing it for him....
There used to be a project called ChiliSoft ASP that did this, but it appears that Sun bought them and then killed the product.
As John R. Pierce noted, if his site is actually using ASP.NET, and not the old original ASP, it may be that Mono could help you, as long as his code isn't digging too deeply into Windows specifics.
If it does end up that you really need a rewrite, Apache::ASP runs fine on CentOS and uses the same sort of programming model:
It's not moved forward in quite a while, and it uses Perl as its programming language instead of Visual Basic, but it's perhaps got the the lowest barrier to entry for your friend.
There is always brute force: you could run windows in a virtual machine under VMware, virtualbox, etc. It wastes some resources, requires an OS license and attention to updates, but lets you run anything on the same physical hardware without conversions. If you need it to share an IP address you can set up a reverse proxy within a named vhost configuration - otherwise it can just look like a separate machine.
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