[Xitami] Status of Xitami ??

[Andrew Tate]

Hi,
Just another person who is very happy with Xitami and have been running it for years on old passed down hardware with little problems.

Many thanks,

Andy..

At 16:24 05/10/04, you wrote:
>Hello,   :) :)
>
>Just saw the following comment in the Original Email listed below:
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>           
>          "Plus, Xitami is unofficially dead. No long term solution. My advice 
>           would be to switch to something supported. "
>
>Would anyone care to comment on this????   :) :)
>
>Thansk for your time, help, and advice!!!!
>
>Jerry
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> 
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>-------------- Original message from "Magnus Wedberg" : -------------- 
>
>> > I am somewhat new to using Xitami and I really need ot activate ASP to 
>> > work in my web pages. 
>> > 
>> > I know, many will say, You're not running IIS, then why and so on. 
>> > Just trust me, I have 100,000 line sof code ready made and I want to 
>> > use what I have, not re-invent the wheel again. Just get my site up 
>> > and running. 
>> > 
>> > SO, to make it simple... 
>> > 
>> > I added the mime type in the default.cfg file to specify asp=text/html 
>> 
>> Wrong way to do it. That will only serve up the ASP code as HTML as 
>> you discovered. You need to add a filter. Like: 
>> [Filter] 
>> .asp=D:\\chilisoft\\asp.exe 
>> 
>> But: Xitami can't run ASP. Only IIS and PWS can, natively, for others 
>> (xitami included) you need an ASP parser such as Chilisoft ASP (now 
>> obviously bought by Sun, don't know of alternatives, only that there 
>> are). You will have to run it in CGI mode, which is very slow. The 
>> beta version of Xitami has ISAPI support and may run some kind of 
>> ISAPI ASP parser (much, much faster), but the beta version is less 
>> stable and much buggier in my experience. Basically, Xitami is very 
>> ill-suited to doing ASP, or indeed any kind of server-side scripting 
>> requiring CGI parsing. 
>> 
>> Plus, Xitami is unofficially dead. No long term solution. My advice 
>> would be to switch to something supported. 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Magnus Wedberg 
>> http://www.magnuswedberg.com/ 
>> mw AT 9000.org 
>> Warning! Objects in viewfinder may be closer than they appear. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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