I have been talking to many webdesigners, and they say that if I run a webhost, it must run ASP. Under the Plesk info, it reads:"ASP Scripting perl module 2.09" Is this what is used for ASP? If not, can ASP be run on Linux? If it can, what is needed?

Thanks.
Mike

The mod_perl ASP handling will only handle ASP scripts handled in Perl, the most common use of ASP involves using VBScript, and so if they want VBScript, then it won't work. Software like Chili!Soft can handle it, but it does cost extra.

Under Windows servers by default you can run ASP in VBScript (default) and JavaScript. If you install ActivePerl you can also use Perl.

However under the Apache ASP you can only run Perl... but as meballard rightly says, most ASP scripts are written in VBScript.

Just tell them webdesigners that you run a linux server, not windows 2000.

You can knowingly smile to them while talking and in the end, ask them how often does their current windows host crash. It will freak them out. Then suggest coding in PHP rather than ASP. (just joking, although reality is sometimes near).

If they need more info about what you can offer them in regards to ASP, send them to Apache:ASP webpage... Also, the above posts explain the differences well.

Ales

I am a pro webdesigner and code both ASP (VBScript) and PHP (as well as perl, cfml, xsl etc) and I can say that out of all the languages PHP is by far the easiest and powerful of all of them (unless of course you go into COM objects with ASP... but that's a different story).