Apache::ASP - How is it?

[Kihara Muriithi]

Marjan,

Cool thank you. Looks like we will have to buy chillisoft then. That
way, there will be less problems migrating sites hopefully.

Still wonder if there is other solutions out there. Would be willing
to look at a couple before finally committing to one of the solution

Regards,
William

On 04/12/2007, Andrej Marjan <amarjan-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On December 3, 2007 09:26:02 am Kihara Muriithi wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have taken sometime googling on how best to run asp scripts on
> > apache, and it seems there are two ways of doing it - apache::ASP or
> > chillisoft. I am looking at a way where I can be able to migrate any
> > existing Window based website to apache on Redhat 4.
> >
> > Does anyone here have experience on the subject and therefore in
> > position to give an opinion on the best alternative to take? In
> > another word, what differentiate the two alternatives above? Is there
> > any other alternative I could have overlooked?
>
> apache::ASP only works for ASP pages written in Perl that don't use any COM
> components, a tiny minority. It works, conceptually, by providing an ASP/Perl
> to Perl compiler and implementations for the built-in ASP objects (Request,
> Response, etc.), which it runs on mod_perl IIRC. I don't remember if it also
> fakes up ADO.
>
> It won't work for the vast majority of ASP code written in vbscript (and to a
> lesser extent, jscript) and which makes heavy use of COM components.
>
> The Chilisoft feature list suggests that it would be sufficient for most ASP
> code:
>
> - support for vbscript and jscript
> - common COM libraries like data access and (an old version of) XML)
>
> If your apps use many third party COM libraries, though, you're probably stuck
> with Windows without some substantial porting efforts (e.g. via chilisoft's
> COM/Java bridge).
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