How to run ASP file from Client machine in an intranet??

[winash]

Hi all,
I am working on an ASP application and the code is almost ready..but i am unable to run those files from the clients browser. I was testing the files as
http://localhost/<file_name>.a sp

Please tell me how can run ASP file from another machine on the same network without actually installing IIS on client machine.

Please help !!

[DrBunchman]

Hi winash,

Welcome to Bytes.com! I hope you find the site useful.

ASP pages will only run through IIS so if you want another machine to be able to browse your pages you will need to set up your website on a server that the machine has access to or install IIS on that machine and copy the files to it.

Hope this helps,

Dr B

[winash]

Thanks Dr. B,
But I have already set up all my files on the server n I have given users all the permissions. I am using Access at the back end. When I try to open asp file from user's machine asp code does not get executed and browser displays that.
Please reply!!

[DrBunchman]

How are you trying to browse the site from the users machine? To browse a site located on the IIS of a different machine you need to use the following url pattern:

//<server name or IP address>/<virtual directory or website name>/<page name.asp>

Is this how you've been browsing the site? If not give that a go. If you have done this then what is the message that is displayed in the browser?

Dr B

[winash]

How are you trying to browse the site from the users machine? To browse a site located on the IIS of a different machine you need to use the following url pattern:

//<server name or IP address>/<virtual directory or website name>/<page name.asp>

Is this how you've been browsing the site? If not give that a go. If you have done this then what is the message that is displayed in the browser?

Dr B

I installed IIS on my machine (windows XP) and created one folder "SRTS" in the wwwroot directory. From there I was running asp file as

localhost/SRTS/login.asp

Now I dont know how to run it from another machine without actually installing IIS. I believe tht IIS is not required on every machine.
I tried following url:
192.168.1.206/localhost/SRTS/login.html
This gave me Page Not Found error!!

[winash]

I also tried to run it as
192.168.1.206/c:/inetpub/wwwroot/SRTS/login.asp

this loads my page but without running the asp code!!

Help me !

[DrBunchman]

Try 192.168.1.206/SRTS/login.html

localhost is the servername when you are browsing the site from the machine that the IIS is on - you don't use it when browsing it remotely.

Let me know if that works

Dr B

[winash]

I tried following url:

192.168.1.206/SRTS/login.html
But it gives error:

"Page can not be displayed"

Please tell me what all access permission settings I need to do at the client side.

Thanks a lot

[winash]

Thanks Dr. B

I got it!!!!

Windows Firewall on my server was not set to allow HTTP.
I set it to allow HTTP and added default.asp page in wwwroot folder. and Thats it!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank u a lot!!!
winash

[DrBunchman]

No problem winash, glad you got it sorted :-)