["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.] Mark Hobley enlightened us with:
> A friend of mine is helping to develop a website for me. He is a > windows user, and has created the website using ASP
Why is that? ASP sucks bigtime! And I know it, because I had to build an ASP website too.
> How do I go about getting it running on my Linux machine ?
Kick your friend in the head and get him to learn PHP.
Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Error BR-549: MS DRM 1.0 rejects the following post from Mark Hobley:
> A friend of mine is helping to develop a website for me. > He is a windows user, and has created the website using ASP > How do I go about getting it running on my Linux machine ?
> I only want to use open source tools. I don't want to splash out any > cash at this stage, in case it doesn't work at the end.
> I guess that I need Apache web server. > I need to know what other stuff I'm going to need. > Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
Try searching on "asp to php converter". Here's one:
Mark Hobley wrote: > A friend of mine is helping to develop a website for me.
> He is a windows user, and has created the website using ASP
> How do I go about getting it running on my Linux machine ?
> I only want to use open source tools. I don't want to splash out any > cash at this stage, in case it doesn't work at the end.
> I guess that I need Apache web server.
> I need to know what other stuff I'm going to need.
> Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
In addition to the Apache web server, get a JSP translator and a servlet engine. If you want to keep it in the Apache family, try Tomcat. Translate the ASP to JSP.
Btw, I've removed comp.os.linux.system from this thread, since this really isn't a system issue.