Good morning all,
I currently have a website that was written in ASP back in 1999. The system is currently running Windows 2003 Server with MsSQL. Before everyone flames me for being in the wrong place, I was wondering if there is a way to allow centos to run old ASP code? I know years ago this wasn't possible without a program like ChiliASP, but noow I heard rumor that apache might have a plugin to allow it to read ASP. I am unsure if there is an apache solution, or other solution like nginx/lighttpd that runs ASP. Any information you guys could provide would be great. I do appreciate your help in advance
PS. I will need to convert the mssql data to mysql, is there any good program that will convert this? I understand that this question is probably inappropriate for this e-mail thread but maybe someone could shoot me a quick suggestion.
On 01/03/12 11:30 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote:
I currently have a website that was written in ASP back in 1999. ......
even if you can get most of your site working under a ASP emulation, and you can convert your data from MS SQL Server to mySQL, you'll need to rework the SQL code in the VBasic sourrce of the ASP pagesas well as fix other system dependencies.
If that site has been live 12 years, it sounds like you got your moneys worth. I would reimplement a new site using your choice of open source web application technologies, whether its java & struts, or php & drupal or python & django, ruby + rails, whatever. import the existing data bases into the new schema in postgresql or mysql or whatever. much better than hacking and repairing old vbasic code running on the wrong environment.
On 01/04/2012 03:11 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 01/03/12 11:30 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote:
I currently have a website that was written in ASP back in 1999. ......
even if you can get most of your site working under a ASP emulation, and you can convert your data from MS SQL Server to mySQL, you'll need to rework the SQL code in the VBasic sourrce of the ASP pagesas well as fix other system dependencies.
If that site has been live 12 years, it sounds like you got your moneys worth. I would reimplement a new site using your choice of open source web application technologies, whether its java& struts, or php& drupal or python& django, ruby + rails, whatever. import the existing data bases into the new schema in postgresql or mysql or whatever. much better than hacking and repairing old vbasic code running on the wrong environment.
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Hello,
an alternative solution: convert the total Win 2k3 to a virtual machine e.g. VMWare.
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Am 04.01.2012 08:30, schrieb Jonathan Vomacka:
Good morning all,
I currently have a website that was written in ASP back in 1999. The system is currently running Windows 2003 Server with MsSQL. Before everyone flames me for being in the wrong place, I was wondering if there is a way to allow centos to run old ASP code? I know years ago this wasn't possible without a program like ChiliASP, but noow I heard rumor that apache might have a plugin to allow it to read ASP. I am unsure if there is an apache solution, or other solution like nginx/lighttpd that runs ASP. Any information you guys could provide would be great. I do appreciate your help in advance
PS. I will need to convert the mssql data to mysql, is there any good program that will convert this? I understand that this question is probably inappropriate for this e-mail thread but maybe someone could shoot me a quick suggestion. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 1/4/2012 12:30 AM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote:
this wasn't possible without a program like ChiliASP,
...which is now dead, apparently.
noow I heard rumor that apache might have a plugin to allow it to read ASP.
Rumor, really? I don't think open source works like that. We're not talking about an Apple product. :)
You may have heard about Apache::ASP (apache-asp.org). Once installed, it allows Apache to work like IIS with classic ASP.
There is one key difference, however: it's based on Perl, rather than VBScript. You will have to rewrite all your code to make use of it.
I wouldn't say that's the biggest problem with Apache::ASP, though. Being forced to rewrite VBScript in Perl is more of a feature than a problem, in my oh-so-humble opinion. :) The real problem with Apache::ASP is that it's semi-abandonware. The web pages are still up, the software still works, but it hasn't gotten a new feature in years, and even bug fixes are few and far between.
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