ASP development with Dreamweaver and MacOSX

ian27 · #1 December 14th, 2004, 09:07 PM

Hi guys,

I'm just wondering if any of you have ever tried to develop ASP on a Mac. One of my bosses wants me to develop an e-commerce site for a client using Dreamweaver and ASP. At present I have very little experience with ASP, only PHP.

I'm aware that PC users have to install PWS to test ASP on their local server. I don't think it's possible to test ASP on a Mac local server (not without a PC emulator anyway) but it should be possible to test it remotely.

Is it possible to set up Dreamweaver so that it automatically connects and uploads to a remote server when you want to preview a page?

I'm really stabbing in the dark on this one, so any advice or tales of past ASP/MacOSX experiences would be most helpful.

Thank you.

Ian

andehlu · #2 December 14th, 2004, 10:28 PM

Theres an ASP module for apache that you should be able to compile (obviously no binary for osx apache).

http://www.apache-asp.org/

ian27 · #3 December 16th, 2004, 05:07 AM

Hi andehlu, thanks for the link. I've just had a look at it now. So does this module allows you to test ASP files on your local server? I found the information on the module webpage a bit confusing.

agusgriego · #4 December 16th, 2004, 07:36 AM

The easiest solution is to work on a remote WIN or LINUX server that supports ASP and have dreamweaver upload the files automatically

If you create a Site in dreamweaver, on Remote Info pane you can put your remote server's data and check the option that says "Atuomatically upload files to server on save".

Also you may want to set up a Testing Server (which can be the same as the one you entered in Remote Info). This will let you preview dynamic pages directly in dreamweaver.

Hope this helps,

andehlu · #5 December 16th, 2004, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ian27

So does this module allows you to test ASP files on your local server?

Yup. Its a complete ASP module for apache. If you dont know much about compiling src code, agusgriego is right another test server would be best. But ultimately if you have apache installed, just untar, cd to dir, ./make ./compile and that should do it...

ian27 · #6 December 16th, 2004, 07:50 PM

Thanks to both of you - this is exactly the kind of information I've been looking for.

So when you have been developing ASP on your Mac, have you also integrating it with any database facilities? Any luck with MS Access (although I don't think a Mac version is available), and have you integrated it with MS SQL or perhaps MySQL if this is at all possible?

Cheers!

Ian

andehlu · #7 December 16th, 2004, 10:03 PM

Ive never dealt with ASSP (oops did i misspell that

) on any machine and hope to hell I never have to

I am straight PHP. But the db connectivity of ASSP (oops i did it again) would be the same as any server side language connecting to a db, with syntax changes.

I doubt you can work with an access file on a mac even though I just googled it and there are odbc drivers for macs.....thats disgusting though. You could develop your app with mysql (keep all db connections as ONE include, easier to change later) and dump the db and reimport it on the machine running the access.

ian27 · #8 December 18th, 2004, 01:07 PM

Hi andehlu. I'm looking at the Apache-ASP module now. It states that you need to have mod_perl installed prior to installing the module?!? I already have Apache installed and running, but would this also include the mod_perl part of the server? Is there a way I can find out?

I'll probably end up climbing the wall with this and giving up, but I might as well give it a go while I have a bit of time on my hands.

Thanks.

Ian