Windows Server (Windows IIS) Question

[Guest]

Can someone please tell me if a Windows server (Windows IIS) will support Dreamweaver CS3 websites? Would we need to purchase anything other than the Windows server? I am using Dreamweaver CS3 and my IS Dept. is looking into purchasing the Windows server because we currently have Domino which does not support Dreamweaver CS3.
Thank you!

[matthew stuart]

Yes it will.

With IIS you would be developing .asp pages. You could also look at apache server and develop .php pages on that.

[Guest]

I was looking in the book and see that you can choose which type of page you would like. I already designed the whole site using a CSS style. Will these pages work on the Windows server also?
Thank you!

[matthew stuart]

Yep, all that IIS or apache does is interpret a kind of html that only it understands, ie IIS understands asp and apache understands php.

CSS is a html standard that doesn't rely upon a specific server like php or asp.

So, if you go for asp for example (as you seem to ask about IIS), you will add all of your asp code to your page to query your database, the server software then reads the asp code and turns it in to html before it even leaves the server and delivers it to your screen. So, on that basis, CSS being html will work on any format be it asp, php, coldfusion, domino etc

[Newsgroup_User]

matthew stuart posted in macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev:

> Yes it will.
>
> With IIS you would be developing .asp pages. You could also look
> at apache server and develop .php pages on that.

You can use PHP with IIS, too. I still prefer Apache, though.


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[matthew stuart]

Yeah, I do myself, but I have been asked why do I do it because it is unusual! So I'll tell you why...

I've been forced to develop in both asp and php (well, more strings to the bow and all that), so I use IIS for both. IIS will automatically display asp pages, but you need to load php and you need to get IIS to read php which isn't particularly straight forward for a non-techie like myself. So, what I did was I went to a website and downloaded an installer which did it all for me and now I am running asp and php from my IIS wwwroot folder. This means I don't have to go and force a change in my port for either apache or IIS and I don't have to keep going to my services and stop IIS in order to start Apache because port 80 is already in use... Brill!

Here's the link to the installer if you're interested:

http://www.iis-aid.com

Mat

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.oO(matthew stuart)

>Yep, all that IIS or apache does is interpret a kind of html that only it
>understands, ie IIS understands asp and apache understands php.
>
> CSS is a html standard that doesn't rely upon a specific server like php or
>asp.
>
> So, if you go for asp for example (as you seem to ask about IIS), you will add
>all of your asp code to your page to query your database, the server software
>then reads the asp code and turns it in to html before it even leaves the
>server and delivers it to your screen. So, on that basis, CSS being html will
>work on any format be it asp, php, coldfusion, domino etc

Be more careful with the terminology. CSS is not HTML, nor does it have
anything to do with it. Both are completely different and _independent_
standards. You can use HTML without CSS as well as you can use CSS for
other things than HTML.

Additionally servers don't really interpret the HTML, they just deliver
anything they're configured to. There might be plugins to allow program
execution like PHP for example, but these are not part of the webserver
itself. So an IIS can also be made to "understand" PHP as well as Apache
might be able to deliver ASP if there's an extension installed for it.

Micha

[Newsgroup_User]

matthew stuart wrote:
> Yes it will.
>
> With IIS you would be developing .asp pages. You could also look at apache server and develop .php pages on that.

PHP installs on IIS as well.

Dooza

[matthew stuart]

OK, so I know that CSS is not html, but it is a standard that doesn't rely upon a specific server technology, and it has to be formatted in such a way that conforms to web standards otherwise it isn't going to work... and you'll end up with webpages like I design :D

I was hust trying to explain in laymans terms...

[Newsgroup_User]

.oO(matthew stuart)

>OK, so I know that CSS is not html, but it is a standard that doesn't rely upon
>a specific server technology, and it has to be formatted in such a way that
>conforms to web standards otherwise it isn't going to work... and you'll end up
>with webpages like I design :D

;-)

I didn't say _that_.

Micha

[Newsgroup_User]

On 12 Sep 2008 in macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev, matthew stuart wrote:

> OK, so I know that CSS is not html, but it is a standard that
> doesn't rely upon a specific server technology, and it has to be
> formatted in such a way that conforms to web standards otherwise it
> isn't going to work...

Somebody alert Redmond. I can see it now: CSS.Net - /not/ the CSS you're
used to!

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