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Cobalt RaQ 4 User Manual 45

Active Server Pages (ASP)

The RaQ 4 uses Chili!Soft™ Active Server Pages (ASP) software.

ASP is an HTML-embedded scripting language that includes one or more small

embedded programs, or scripts, that are processed on a Web server before the

Web page is sent to the user. An ASP is somewhat similar to a server-side include

or a common gateway interface (CGI) application in that all three involve

programs that run on the server, usually tailoring a page for the user.

For example, an ASP script can use the input from the user’s request for the page

to access data from a database. The script then builds or customizes the page on

the ﬂy and returns it to the requestor. The Web server does all of the processing,

and a standard HTML page is generated and sent to the browser.

It is not necessary to enable the ASP Administrative Server on the Server

Management screen in order to enable ASP on an individual virtual site.

ASP Administrative Server

The ASP Administrative Server allows you to conﬁgure your ASP service

through a separate browser-based UI. It does not need to be turned on to allow

site users to serve ASP pages; this interface runs on port 5100.

You can access the ASP Administrative Server screen from the Server

Management screen. The ASP Administrative Server user interface includes a

link to the ASP HTML documentation ﬁles.

For more information, see “ASP Administrative Server” on page 62.

PHP embedded scripting

The RaQ 4 supports PHP Version 4.0 embedded scripting.

As with ASP, PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language that includes one

or more small embedded programs, or scripts, that are processed on a Web server

before the Web page is sent to the user.

Much of the PHP syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a few unique

PHP-speciﬁc features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow Web

developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.

For more information on PHP, visit the URL http://www.php.net.