asp novice - help, im just a designer!

I am trying to get my head round asp includes, i have done what i *thought* was
right, however, when I type in the url i get the code displayed rather than the
included page - asp is enable on this server. Url is:
http://www.5thring.com/scotia/pinefield/home/home.asp

any help much appreciated
thanks
louise

It's hard to tell without seeing the code for the complete page, but have your
included the ASP coding at the top of the page..?

Originally posted by: louloulouloulou
I am trying to get my head round asp includes, i have done what i *thought*
was right, however, when I type in the url i get the code displayed rather than
the included page - asp is enable on this server. Url is:
http://www.5thring.com/scotia/pinefield/home/home.asp

any help much appreciated
thanks
louise

You don't need to use ASP to have includes, you know?

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"louloulouloulou" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I am trying to get my head round asp includes, i have done what i
*thought* was
right, however, when I type in the url i get the code displayed rather
than the
included page - asp is enable on this server. Url is:
http://www.5thring.com/scotia/pinefield/home/home.asp

any help much appreciated
thanks
louise

louloulouloulou wrote:

I am trying to get my head round asp includes, i have done what i *thought* was
right, however, when I type in the url i get the code displayed rather than the
included page - asp is enable on this server. Url is:
http://www.5thring.com/scotia/pinefield/home/home.asp

I don't mean to be argumentative, but are you SURE ASP is enabled on
that server? Here are the response headers sent by the server on the
page above:

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:22:32 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27
Last-Modified: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:03:17 GMT
Etag: "7f4401-15b-411a4345"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 347
Content-Type: text/plain

Since it's Apache, it would need a third party application in order to
process ASP. Note the last header line. It's being sent as text/plain
instead of text/html. That suggests that the server doesn't know what to
do with .asp pages.


Gary

You would need ChillSoft running on an Apache server to run ASP pages, it is
best to check your host to see if your account has ChilliSoft as an option...if
not, then take a look at PHP.

Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
louloulouloulou wrote:

I am trying to get my head round asp includes, i have done what i *thought*
was
right, however, when I type in the url i get the code displayed rather than
the
included page - asp is enable on this server. Url is:
http://www.5thring.com/scotia/pinefield/home/home.asp

I don't mean to be argumentative, but are you SURE ASP is enabled on
that server? Here are the response headers sent by the server on the
page above:

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:22:32 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27
Last-Modified: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:03:17 GMT
Etag: "7f4401-15b-411a4345"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 347
Content-Type: text/plain

Since it's Apache, it would need a third party application in order to
process ASP. Note the last header line. It's being sent as text/plain
instead of text/html. That suggests that the server doesn't know what to
do with .asp pages.


Gary

I think the server must be ASP enabled, as an ASP site is shown when going
to the root:

http://www.5thring.com/

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could be the host only turns on ASP as require per site, I know Fasthosts, how
I use, do that, even for an ASP site, you have to turn it on.

Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
I think the server must be ASP enabled, as an ASP site is shown when going
to the root:

http://www.5thring.com/

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Shopping Cart Extension for Dreamweaver MX/MX 2004

CarlGrint wrote:

You would need ChillSoft running on an Apache server to run ASP pages,

That's what I meant when I said a third party app. Of course ChiliSoft
ASP was renamed to Sun One, when was then renamed to Sun Java Server, or
something like that.


Gary

Julian Roberts wrote:

I think the server must be ASP enabled, as an ASP site is shown when going
to the root:

http://www.5thring.com/

I get a re-direct from there to:
http://www.fifthring.co.uk/hello/


Gary

Allow me to provide the simple answer. Your path to your include file is wrong.

Try this <!--#include file="../includes/header.inc"--> (Note the 2 dots to go
back one directory)

Your include directory is down one directory from your home.asp file, so if
you want to use the include file="" tag then you have to direct to the include
file from the current location (where the home.asp file is). Otherwise, you
could use the include virtual="" tag, however with that you'd have to guide to
the include directory from the virtual root, which is probably the root
directory of the web site. So that may be <!--#include
virtual="/scotia/pinefield/includes/header.inc"-->

Hope that helps!
Cheers,
Ben