Re-posted some of my old entries from other blogging services but I need more efficient way. It was embarrassing method of copying the post and changing the date.
Looking for a way to salvage my Access database which contains all my old bookmarks(posts), I wanted to activate currently obsolete ASP server. Instead of installing an old version of Windows server(something like 2000?), tried Visual Web Developer for temporary access to the MS Access .mdb file and generate HTML result so I can add it to the old HTML version of my posts. However, this Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition doesn’t build a properly working website using obsolete ASP files, or I just can’t find the right solution. I regret that I didn’t make the HTML version before shutting it down.
Not knowing if there is same situation like me, I just don’t have any clue where to start searching about restoring ASP page with Access database. It’s quite hard to imagine what I must search in ASP.NET, what I need to know more about the basic essentials.
Should I change the ASP files to PHP? Using some kind of automatic parser? Or set up currently obsolete format of server to activate ASP service as I planned initially? Add ASP scripting to Apache? Maybe I should accept this situation as an opportunity to learn PHP coding by rewriting the entire website in PHP. For I’ve tried to learn the grammar, structure of PHP, this challenge can be a good exercise which will accelerate my learning speed. Now I am little glad that my old website was not as complicate one as I wanted it to be back then.
