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 Posted: 12 February 2004 at 3:50pm |
This article was wrote by huwnet for devhop.com:
HOWTO install IIS on XP home
Installing IIS on XP home
To use IIS we recommend you use XP pro. However this is a workaround for XP home.
This is not an official install procedure for IIS and we do NOT recommend attempting this without a backup copy of the files needed. We will NOT be held responsible for any damage to your pc/network whilst attempting this procedure!
- locate C:\WINDOWS\INF\SYSOC.INF
- edit the section called [Components]
- find a line like this:
iis=iis.dll,OcEntry,iis.inf,hide,7
- change it to this (the iis cab in the i386 xp home folder looks to be nothing)
iis=iis2.dll,OcEntry,iis2.inf,,7
(some sort of ms caching thing keeps sticking back iis.dll when I try to nuke it. quickly renaming and making hidden dir called iis.dll seems to thwart, but not worth it, so iis2.dll is good enough)
- I grabbed the iis.dl_ and iis.in_ from win2k advanced server cd (or 200 professional).
I would guess similar techniques would work from W98, FP, etc.
Use "EXPAND IIS.DL_ IIS2.DLL" from a command prompt
Same for IIS2.INF, place IIS2.INF in C:\WINDOWS\INF and IIS2.DLL in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SETUP
- Now when I did "add windows programs" from the control panel's add new programs,
I had IIS options and I could even check em off. yippee - could not check em off from my xppro cd :(((
I just went with the defaulted ones though (all i needed was iis web server)
- It will prompt you for files. Get em from MS XP Home CDs, Adv Server CDs, C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\INETSRV, C:\WINDOWS\I386, etc. (It will tell you the file it needs, you just need to have a searcher going, probably the CDs will have all you need)
- You can get to your IIS from Control Panel's Administrative Programs.
I stuck in an index.html file and reconfigure IIS to work like this. No go :(((
I right clicked on my inetpub folder and did something with shared folders. No go :(((
I looked at the event viewer and saw the error of my ways.
Go to IIS and goto Directory Security tab and click Edit button and Browse for the user setup on my laptop.
- You can now access your site from http://localhost
- IIS should be used for development only!
- Even more so on XP home as you cannot install IIS patches!
This Article was written on 2/9/2004 by huwnet
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ok if i do that,
I'll have to stop my apache server when I do that?
because Apache runs off of Localhost...
I guess i could always edit the httpd.conf file and make it read the ip
address of the machine and change IIS to run off of 127.0.0.1
Would that work?
Also how reliable is this work around?
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Posted: 12 February 2004 at 3:57pm |
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You could run Apache on a differant port (8080 for example) or run IIS on a differant port.
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yeah I guess so
Makes perfect sense. Thanks for the help,
I looked on the internet and didnt find anything remotly close to that
post you made, only a few old threads of people saying i should install
XP pro or I should just install XP pro's IIS, you'd figure if i had
access to an XP pro disk, I'd just install it...
Again thanks for the help Ill try this when I get back to my house computer...
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Posted: 12 February 2004 at 5:00pm |
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if this is the same mattymatt i think it is.. reach me on the other site and i can help you out
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Yes MorningZ its the same screen name,
I like to keep things simple stupid.... same screen name achieves that
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Well loading chilisoft didnt work
it for some reason wouldnt find either my JRun Server (coldfusion) or
my apache server so well it looks im SOL and going to have to try and
do the Win2K trick this weekend
I do appreciate all the help here though
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Posted: 13 February 2004 at 11:20am |
 Mart wrote:
This article was wrote by huwnet for devhop.com:
HOWTO install IIS on XP home
Installing IIS on XP home
To use IIS we recommend you use XP pro. However this is a workaround for XP home.
This
is not an official install procedure for IIS and we do NOT recommend
attempting this without a backup copy of the files needed. We will NOT
be held responsible for any damage to your pc/network whilst attempting
this procedure!
- locate C:\WINDOWS\INF\SYSOC.INF
- edit the section called [Components]
- find a line like this:
iis=iis.dll,OcEntry,iis.inf,hide,7
- change it to this (the iis cab in the i386 xp home folder looks to be nothing)
iis=iis2.dll,OcEntry,iis2.inf,,7
(some
sort of ms caching thing keeps sticking back iis.dll when I try to nuke
it. quickly renaming and making hidden dir called iis.dll seems to
thwart, but not worth it, so iis2.dll is good enough)
- I grabbed the iis.dl_ and iis.in_ from win2k advanced server cd (or 200 professional).
I would guess similar techniques would work from W98, FP, etc.
Use "EXPAND IIS.DL_ IIS2.DLL" from a command prompt
Same for IIS2.INF, place IIS2.INF in C:\WINDOWS\INF and IIS2.DLL in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SETUP
- Now when I did "add windows programs" from the control panel's add new programs,
I had IIS options and I could even check em off. yippee - could not check em off from my xppro cd :(((
I just went with the defaulted ones though (all i needed was iis web server)
- It will prompt you for files. Get em from MS XP Home CDs, Adv
Server CDs, C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\INETSRV, C:\WINDOWS\I386, etc. (It will
tell you the file it needs, you just need to have a searcher going,
probably the CDs will have all you need)
- You can get to your IIS from Control Panel's Administrative Programs.
I stuck in an index.html file and reconfigure IIS to work like this. No go :(((
I right clicked on my inetpub folder and did something with shared folders. No go :(((
I looked at the event viewer and saw the error of my ways.
Go to IIS and goto Directory Security tab and click Edit button and Browse for the user setup on my laptop.
- You can now access your site from http://localhost
- IIS should be used for development only!
- Even more so on XP home as you cannot install IIS patches!
This Article was written on 2/9/2004 by huwnet |
Great to see my article coming to some good use.
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