Viewing ASP page locally

I've just started learning ASP and I'm wondering if there is anyway I can preview my pages locally.

This is the page that I am testing:



So I've got that saved as an .asp file on my computer and I want to view it without having to upload it to my web host.

I've downloaded the microsoft .net framework sdk, is there anything else I need or anything I can use or enable or something?

Sorry for such a simple question. I'm a pretty experienced programmer and I can use html fine, I'm just clueless when it comes to internet, servers and all that stuff.

Thanks in advance

you need to install IIS if you are running a windows XP Pro machine,
you can install it from the add/remove windows components screen
in the CP.

have a look at this site:
http://www.webwizguide.com/asp/tuto...s_winXP_pro.asp
hope this helps

Hmmm, I've installed that now and done everything on that site but it still doesn't work :-/

Internet explorer just opens the .asp file as a plain text file and firefox opens it right but the <%Response.Write(now())%> does nothing... (It did this before installing too btw)

Any ideas?

if you site is under this folder:

then use this in the URL bar:

hope this helps

Thanks so much, that worked.

But now I'm having another (small but annoying) problem.

I can't seem to clear IEs cache. When I edit a page and go to load it back, it keeps coming up as the original (un-editted) page. I've tried going to InternetOptions->Delete Files, and I've also tried removing files manually and even using Disk Cleanup but none of them seem to fully clear the cache, I restart IE everytime I do one of these as well!

If I simply change the name of the editted file then it works but it's really annoying to have to do that to see every change.

Tools > internet options > temp internet files > settings > "check for newer versions of stored pages" try selecting every visit to the page. It could just be that your deleting the wrong cache in windows depending on a few things