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APPENDIX E
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” on page 231.
This chapter applies to ASP developers only. For information on ASP.NET,
see “Setup for Sample ASP.NET Site” on page 255.
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Configuring your system (ASP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .270
Defining a Dreamweaver site (ASP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .275
Connecting to the sample database (ASP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Setup checklists for ASP
developers
To set up a web application, you must configure your system, define a
Dreamweaver site, and connect to a database. This section provides
checklists for each task. The tasks are described in more detail in the rest of
the chapter.