Web site how to.....

[nova812]

I'm new to linux and need a little help with setting things up. What I want to do is set up a web server that can do what I can do with IIS on a Window$ box. I guess what my question is what is the Linux equivalant to ASP? Web pages are a hobbie for me. I'm hoping to find free software to develop my websites with. Web sites I develop now use ASP and M$ Access 2k to do some cool(not very original) stuff like on-line chats, simple BB, day planner/calendar, and such things as that. I plan to get aquainted with mySQL for to replace Access. Now how can I replace IIS?
Thanks for any direction you can offer.

nova812

[bigrigdriver]

If I understand your post correctly, you need a web server. Apache is freely available (may even be included with your distro). If not, you can get it at http://httpd.apache.org.

[Fimbulvetr]

Try php @ www.php.net (http://www.php.net)

and mysql for the database. Very very nice.

[Choozo]

Definitely PHP :D

[jon787]

PHP and MySQL are sooooo much better than ASP and M$ Access!