Previewing ASPX in Dreamweaver 8

Question

I would like to preview ASPX files locally in Dreamweaver 8.
I suspect you need additional software other than Dreamweaver 8 and
an ASPX file to do this. Am I wrong? Could it be possible that I am
just not doing the TEST SERVER setup correctly?
So
1- Do I need extra software installed?
2- If not, what is the easiest way to set it up so
complicated path names etc don't muck up the solution?
Thanks!
Nostrildamus

Answer 1

Nostrildamus wrote:
> Oh yes, How do I point Dreamweaver file to this IIS
interpreter. Where does
> this interpreter reside? Is it an executalbe file or
dll? There is no query in
> the setup like this
>
> ENTER LOCATION OF ISS
EXECUTABLE___________________________
> otherwise I'd be done now.
It doesn't work like that, sorry.
You should have this folder structure:
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\
That is the root of your testing server, or it should be
something like
that, have a look in the IIS manager and see what is set as
the home
directory. That is where you want to put your aspx files.
Then, when you browse to:
http://127.0.0.1 or
http://youripaddress or
http://yourcomputername
(this is your testing URL in your site definition)
IIS will server the pages to you. In IIS you can set the
default page
that gets served when you don't specify one.
This might help you understand it better:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/setting_up_asp.html
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