On the Chili!Soft ASP Start Page, you can find links to the Chili!Soft ASP product documentation, ASP sample applications, diagnostic applications, and the 10-Step Tour. When your Web server is running, you can access the Start Page at the following URL:
http://[HOSTNAME]/caspsamp
where [HOSTNAME] is the hostname of your Web server.
The remainder of this topic provides more information about these resources and describes additional ways to access them.
The Chili!Soft ASP setup program gives you the option to install the product documentation. If you choose this option, both an HTML and an Adobe PDF version of the product documentation are installed on the computer running Chili!Soft ASP. When your Web server is running, you can access the HTML version of the documentation by using the following URL:
http://[HOSTNAME]/caspdoc/
where [HOSTNAME] is the hostname of your Web server.
From the first page of the HTML documentation, you can click a link to open the version in Adobe PDF format. To access the Adobe PDF version directly, use the following URL:
http://[HOSTNAME]/caspsamp/pdf
where [HOSTNAME] is the hostname of your Web server.
You can also access both versions of the product documentation from the Chili!Soft Web site at:
http://www.chilisoft.com/caspdoc/
The Chili!Soft ASP setup program gives you the option to install and configure the sample ASP applications on the computer running Chili!Soft ASP. When your Web server is running, you can access the installed samples from the Chili!Soft ASP Start Page, at:
http://[HOSTNAME]/caspsamp
where [HOSTNAME] is the hostname of your Web server.
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You can access the samples from the Chili!Soft Web site at:
http://www.chilisoft.com/caspsamp/
You can view a list of installed sample ASP applications on the ASP Applications page of the Chili!Soft Administration Console, as described in "Adding an ASP Application" in "Chapter 3: Managing Chili!Soft ASP." The sample applications are located in your file system at:
/caspsamp="[C-ASP]/caspsamp"
where /caspsamp is the directory alias (virtual directory) for the caspsamp sample application and [C-ASP] is the path name of the Chili!Soft ASP installation directory.
In the caspsamp directory, the following subdirectories contain samples:
/casp401k="[C-ASP]/caspsamp/401k/content"
where /casp401k is the directory alias (virtual directory) for the casp401k sample application.
/caspagent="[C-ASP]/caspsamp/friendship/agent/content"
where /caspagent is the directory alias (virtual directory) for the caspagentsample application.
/caspclient="[C-ASP]/caspsamp/friendship/client/content"
where /caspclient is the directory alias (virtual directory) for the caspclient sample application.
If you are new to ASP technology, we recommend that you take our 10-Step Tour to gain a better understanding of what Chili!Soft ASP can do for you. When Chili!Soft ASP is installed and your Web server is running, you can access the tour from the Chili!Soft ASP Start Page, at:
http://[HOSTNAME]/caspsamp/
where [HOSTNAME] is the hostname of your Web server.
The following diagnostic applications are installed with Chili!Soft ASP, which enable you to verify that various features of your ASP environment are functioning correctly:
· HELLO. This application tests the functionality of ASP and VBScript by using a simple "Hello World" script.
· SERVER. This application tests the ASP Server-to-Web server connection by retrieving the standard Web server variables.
· JSCRIPT. This application tests the functionality of JScript.
· ADO. This application accesses ActiveX Data Objects (ADO): from VBScript. It connects to a sample database by using ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) in order to test the functionality of ADO and the dBase ODBC driver.
· JSADO. This application performs the same test as ADO, except it accesses ADO from JScript rather than VBScript.
· SQLEXECUTE. This application uses ADO to execute an SQL statement and display the results. To use this application, you must first create a system DSN for your database on the ASP Server, as described in "Adding a DSN" in "Chapter 3: Managing Chili!Soft ASP."
When your Web server is running, you can access the diagnostic applications from the Chili!Soft ASP Start Page, at:
http://[HOSTNAME]]/caspsamp
where [HOSTNAME] is the hostname of your Web server.
Tip
While running a diagnostic application, you can view the ASP code that generated the HTML output by clicking View ASP Source at the bottom of the page.