Requirements

• ASP.NET 2.0 Framework

Suggested Additional Requirements

• IIS
• Visual Studio 2005 (VS2005)
• .NET 2.0 SDK (which is installed with VS2005)

There are two separate stages to installation: Installing Gotham and Configuring IIS to allow ASP pages to be served by .NET.

Recommended Setup

Gotham is still in development and so some things are not quite as smooth as they will be in future. Installation is one of them. This is what we recommend you do to try Gotham

1. Download the latest Gotham from http://aspcompiler.com/files/default.aspx
2. Unzip into c:\gotham
3. Add c:\gotham to your system path (right click 'My Computer' > Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables)
4. Bring up a Command Prompt, navigate to c:\gotham and type 'gotham /setup'. Gotham should reply with 'Gotham directory set to c:\gotham\. It may also say that there is no sourcefile given -- which is okay.
5. Gotham has made an entry into machine.config so that it now knows where its base directory is
6. Change directory to the root web site (c:\inetpub\wwwroot for example which is the default IIS web site directory)
7. Compile a simple ASP file. This will create the /bin directory and will copy into it the other assemblies required (IISInterface, GothamDLL, GothamRTL, Interop.ADODB, Interop.Scripting and GothamRTLExternalObjects)
8. Copy in the web.config if none is present. Each ASP.NET has a file called web.config in its root direcotry. This contains configuration information. For example copy web.config from c:\gotham to c:\inetpub\wwwroot
9. Configure IIS

If you have a development setup you should consider installing Gotham onto a Virtual PC. This is not because Gotham will cause any damage, it will allow you to try it without changing any of your system's IIS settings. Virtual PC is free and available from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx