Having trouble viewing ASP pages locally

I am new to and just starting to learn asp. I installed IIS on my machine, I am running XP media center edition and believe that I have everything installed that i need. After installing it everything looked to be ok, but when i try to view the test page in the browser i get the following error...

"Not Found

The requested URL /my_first_asp_page.asp was not found on this server."

and after much searching i am getting frustrated in not being able to fix this problem.

your help is greatly appreciated!! THANKS!

What test page? How do you call the page in the browser? Is the WWW service actually installed and running?

You need to serve asp pages using something like http://localhost/mypage.asp

Also you might turn off any firewall/script blockers/spyware blockers for testing.

I stopped the spyware program that i had running, no firewal and , where would i check about the script blockers? IE or firefox?

The way you stated is exactly how i am calling the page in the browser "http://localhost/mypage.asp", and still getting the same message...

"Not Found

The requested URL /firstpage.asp was not found on this server.

Apache/2.0.53 (Win32) PHP/5.0.3 Server at localhost Port 80"

and where would i check to make sure that the services are running, as far as i can tell they are all good.

Thanks again for the help.

You won't be able to run ASP pages with Apache. You can get some ASP modules, but there are PERL based.

You need IIS or an ASP server to run ASP files.
If you have Apache and IIS both installed then you either have to change the listening Port in one of the programs or stop Apache.