Chili!Soft ASP includes the concept of an ASP application, which comprises a hierarchical set of directories that contain all of the ASP pages and other files used by the application. The root directory of an ASP application contains an optional global.asa file, which stores application state information along with Application and Session information. Using the Application and Session Objects with the global.asa file is explained in "Using the global.asa File" in "Chapter 4: Building a Chili!Soft ASP Application."
In order for an ASP application to be processed, it must be defined on the ASP Server. There are four ways to define an application on Chili!Soft ASP:
· Adding the application from the Administration Console, as described in "Adding an ASP Application" in "Chapter 3: Managing Chili!Soft ASP."
· Enabling ASP processing for a Virtual Host, as described in "Enabling ASP for a Virtual Host" and "Defining Applications in a Shared Environment" in "Chapter 3: Managing Chili!Soft ASP."
· Using the FrontPage Services file, as described in "Using the Frontpage 2000 Services File in a Shared Environment" in "Chapter 3: Managing Chili!Soft ASP."
· Adding an application from within the Chili!Soft configuration file, or adding an alias from within the Apache Web Server configuration file. This is an advanced administration option described in "Defining Applications on UNIX" in "Chapter 3: Managing Chili!Soft ASP."
Examples of ASP applications are the Chili!Soft ASP Administration Console and the Chili!Soft ASP samples. (You can access the sample applications from the Administration Console, as described in "Accessing Documentation, Samples, and Diagnostics" in "Introduction: About This Documentation.")
Note
Chili!Soft provides technical support for configuring supported Web servers—such as Apache and Netscape—so that they run with Chili!Soft ASP. In addition, Chili!Soft provides technical support for the Apache Web Server that is installed with the Chili!Soft ASP bundle. However, in order to receive technical support for the bundled Apache Web Server, you must use the Chili!Soft ASP Administration Console to manage it, rather than editing the Web server configuration files directly. On Cobalt systems there is no option to configure a different Web server to run with Chili!Soft ASP.
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