Can I run ASP on Apache Server

[kevinj]

How can I run ASP pages on Apache Server running on a Mac webserver?

[sitz]

It's always a good idea to search the archives [google.com] before asking. =)

[kevinj]

Doesn't seem like these links address Mac OSX server specifically. I need to know if there's something like ChiliSoft that will run ASP pages on a Mac server running Apache.

[sitz]

There's at least one solution in there which can handle it (Apache::ASP [apache-asp.org], although from what I understand, the ASP would likely require a little tweaking to work properly. That said, you may want to consider re-working the code into another language (PHP, perl, what have you). Obviously, the practicality of this hinges on any number of things, not the least of which is the size of your codebase. =)

[Stuperfied]

I adventually went with Selisoft's ActiveHTML for my Windows based Apache Server, only about $50 AUD for the license or about $35 USD I think.

[sitz]

I'd suggest benchmarking ActiveHTML against other solutions before you make your final call; ActiveHTML uses a CGI to get the job done, which means there's a fork() penalty involved; this may or may not be an issue in your environment, but it's worth mentioning. See also the gotchas at [selisoft.com ]. It's also somewhat ironic that the selisoft website is powered by PHP:

HEAD [selisoft.com...]  

200 OK 
Connection: close 
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:59:29 GMT 
Server: Apache 
Content-Type: text/html 
Client-Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:59:29 GMT 
Client-Peer: 81.88.34.41:80 
Client-Response-Num: 1 
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.4 

=)

(in all fairness, there's no way of knowing for sure whether they're using PHP for their website, but '.phtml' is an extension often used for PHP).

[Stuperfied]

Wow, cool. I think im going to learn PHP...:)