running asp pages from a cd rom

[TheMatrix]

Hi All,

I've built an autoplay menu. I'm looking to run a website that is asp based on the cd-rom for marketing purposes, is this possible?

Cheers,

Tony

[rhosk]

If I understand your question - No, asp is server side script and needs to write to a server that supports asp, sorry.

[TheMatrix]

Thanks Ron, yes I need an engine to run on the cd-rom like a web server so it can run the asp files. Any ideas anyone?

[Brett]

Frankly, that is a task that Neo and Morpheus would not be able to accomplish without The Architect. :D

The problem is that there is a LOT to getting ASP pages executing. To my knowledge there is no way to do it without having the appropriate server software installed on the system that is running the app. And even then, having IIS running would probablly not be enough because the ASP pages would have to have execute permissions from your CD or whatever.

In the end, your best option would be to put the ASP pages on your Web site and show them in a Web Browser object.

[Worm]

This is a link to a product from Intorel. It will compile your website to an EXE and it will handle ASP/PHP/PERL internally. Very cool!

Intorel Site Compiler (http://www.intorel.com/sitecomp/)

[Corey]

Yes I have used the PHP binary before, it ends up lacking a lot of the module version's funtsions but it works, you just pass your pages through the parser. Or you can use GTK to compile PHp too (doesn't work too well).

I imagine must be same for ASP but not as good because Microsoft has no interest in doing that.

Main point I wish to make is to remember that you lose all security in that scenario. Don't forget that. :)

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)