Developing Web Applications

Not Using the Web Server to View ASP Pages

To view ASP pages in the browser, you need to request them from the Web server by using HTTP syntax. If you try to view them directly from the file system, the browser will either try to download the file, or will display the script without executing it. Here are some other reasons for ASP pages not displaying properly: not having script (or execute) permissions set for the directory in which the page is stored, and not using the .asp extension when naming files.