WEEK 4

Assalamualaikum wbt

In week 4, Prof. Zaidatun teach us on How to use Active Server Pages (ASP) in Dreamweaver. And in this week we’re giving task to create a Guest Book. Sound interesting right?

But before proceed to the new chapter, Prof. Zaidatun review our last week topic about Web Based Development. She also checked and make sure that we already know the basic skills on Web Based Development. 

We also have been explained about 3 types of link. 

Link to other website, email link and anchor. Anchor can be used to link text in the same page or we can say it has the same function like book mark.

Back to our new task, to create a Guest Book we must have a database. So other than learn on how to use ASP, we also have been introduced by using Microsoft Access.

As we’ve learn in our previous class, ASP can run with Internet Information System (IIS) server. So the first step is to check whether the IIS can work or not.

How to check your IIS?

Click Control Panel > Programs > Programs & Features > Turn Windows Features On or Off

Then click checkbox Internet Information System (IIS)

Click any browser, type localhost at the URL space and wait until the image of appear. 

That’s means your IIS is work! The image of IIS is at below:-

Now we go to the step of creating a new site...

Open the Dreamweaver > Click Site > New Site > name our site (In this task, I named it as “project”)

Then put URL (http://localhost/project/)

Then click Next > Yes > ASP VBScript > Edit & Test Locally (My testing server is on this computer )> Inetpub > wwwroot

*type inetpub \wwwroot\project\

Test URL

Next we can start create a database

Go to Microsoft Access, create new database file at Blank Database. We have to save the file at 

C:/inetpub/wwwroot/data

Create the fields in the table

Setup the connection

To setup the connection we have to be very focus and make sure we follow the flow accordingly.

In the class, we follow the entire step in the handout given by Prof. Zaidatun. Unfortunately, most of us stuck at the step of test the connection. We try to explore the failure for more than 10 times but still same problem appear. 

So I decided to find out the solution. The day after, I went to meet my friend, Mr. Khairi Hassan, IT Officer at UTM. 

I told him my problem and then we start to explore together. After a few trials, we found out that for Windows 7, ASP will not installed by default once you click IIS in the checkbox. 

What I have to do is install it manually and follow the step that also has been discussed in our FB Group.

The steps are as follows :-

Go to start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > IIS

In the connection panel, select application pools > Select default approach (in the centre panel )

In the action panel, click advanced setting link

In the general setting, set enable 32 bit application to True then click ok.

Now only I know that unlike other Window which apply 64 bits, Windows 7 use 32 bits in setting ASP

Wassalam