Setup for Sample ASP Site

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 comes with sample Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) web pages to let you build a small web application. This chapter describes how to set up the sample application using Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). For more information on this web server, see Installing a Web Server.

This chapter applies to ASP developers only. For information on ASP.NET, see Setup for Sample ASP.NET Site.

Setting up a web application is a three-step process. First, configure your system. Second, define a Dreamweaver site. Third, connect the application to your database. This setup chapter follows this three-step process.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Setup checklists for ASP developers

Configuring your system (ASP)

Defining a Dreamweaver site (ASP)

Connecting to the sample database (ASP)