HTML as ASP

Steps to process HTML as ASP

Sometimes you may want to process ASP or process PHP code inside your .html files. To do this, follow these simple steps for Windows 2008/IIS 7.5 servers:

1. Open IIS
2. Expand Server name in IIS
3. Click Sites
4. Find the site you want to change
5. Double click the site in the Center Pane
6. Right click Handler Mappings
   1. choose Open Feature
7. Find the ASPClassic, *.asp entry
8. Right Click
   1. choose Edit on that entry
9. Copy the Executable entry, normally like %windir%\system32\inetsrv\asp.dll
10. In the right pane click Add Script Map
11. For the Request path enter: *.html
12. For the Executable enter: %windir%\system32\inetsrv\asp.dll (assuming that is what you copied above)
13. For the Name enter: HTMLasAsp
14. Click Ok
15. When prompted for Do you want to Allow...
    1. choose Yes
16. Done