[OPLINTECH] migrating an asp page

[Ron Woods]

Hi Karen:

I have found that Ready to run software has reelased a port of Front Page
Server Extensions 2002 for Windows Server 2008. It looks as if these people
took it upon themselves to work with a few vendors and backport this
technology to Server 2008. There is a 32 bit and a 64 bit version of the
Front Page Server Extensions for Windows Server 2008

You can grab the extensions here

http://www.rtr.com/fpse/

Installation Instructions here:

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/134/install-frontpage-server-extensions/

also, I downloaded the binary and ran it though Jotti Online Malware
scanner, the 20 Anti-virus/Anti-Malware apps it uses found nothing wrong
with it, definitions all dated today. The link to the results I just ran can
be found below

http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresult/f1bc13548a014d1122c2e775891306ed5ed
3fbff

I don't attest that the file is clean, but it would be reasonable to assume
that it is. Jotti and its 20 different scanners found nothing wrong with the
file in question. 

I am not sure if running this software is supported by Microsoft or not, If
it was "me" I would take the risk and try it anyways just due to the simple
fact there is no easy way to port from asp to asp.net. I would backup the
server, and then I would take the risk install the FPSE for Server 2008 and
most likely your pages will work just fine.

That's just my 2 cent, but I don't mind taking calculated risks as long as
the rewards are worthwhile. In this case I think they would be.

Sincerely


Ron Woods
Computer Services Manager
St.Clairsville Public Library
St.Clairsville Ohio, 43950
Phone: (740) 695-2062
http://www.stclibrary.org
woodsro at oplin.org



-----Original Message-----
From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org] On
Behalf Of Karen Perone
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:52 PM
To: OPLINTECH
Subject: [OPLINTECH] migrating an asp page

We recently upgraded to a new web server running Win2008R2 and IIS 7.5. 
We had happily been using FrontPage Server Extensions with all the great
database connectors and file includes.

Unfortunately, FPSE is no longer an option with this newest server version
and our database search and form pages broke. They used .asp pages for
entering data and searching.

For example, our database search of a local cemetery -
http://www.rodmanlibrary.com/rpl/ref/genealogy/stjosephburials.asp

The database connection seems to be gone. IIS 7.5 seems to use ASP.Net and
not ODBC. I have searched endlessly for a solution in simple English that
will help me make this work again.

Anyone have any luck with converting a FPSE site to a new server? Do you
have a support forum to recommend that explains these more complicated
settings in layman's terms?

Thanks.
-- 
Karen Perone              peroneka at oplin.org
Systems Coordinator
Rodman Public Library     voice: 330-821-2665 x101
215 E. Broadway Street    fax: 330-821-5053
Alliance, OH 44601        http://www.rodmanlibrary.com
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