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davidshq 
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Posted: 05 May 2005 at 10:02pm |
Any ideas on how I could get my hands on a copy of IIS inexpensively? I
currently have Windows XP Home installed on my laptop and this
constantly causes trouble because I want to be able to run the scripts
on my local computer before I put them up on the server. Usually I can
get them to run using Web Matrix which comes with a mini-sever, but
having a full-fledged IIS would be nice. I don't want to go out and buy
a new Windows XP Professional just for that. 
David.
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Posted: 05 May 2005 at 10:45pm |
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You don't have to buy a new OS, I think WinXP lets you upgrade to Pro possibly? Would be a lot cheaper.
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Posted: 05 May 2005 at 11:58pm |
One "cheap" option would be to setup a Win98 box on your LAN if you
have a spare PC and install PWS, which is not longer supported at all
by MS. You could also find a cheap copy of Win2k Pro which includes IIS
(with limitations) and do the same thing or setup a dual boot situation
on 1 pc.
One other possibility is try to take a look at Richard Sandoz's method
for installing IIS on XP Home. You will still need a Win2k or XP CD
with certain files.
Disclaimer: If you try this, it is entirely at your own risk. I
can verify that I have gotten the method to work quite some time ago
just as an experient, which is why I actually asked (and received)
permission from Richard to reprint his article on my site.
http://www.rexpage.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=19&KW=sandoz
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Posted: 06 May 2005 at 1:52am |
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FYI, Ive tried the XP Home trick about 3 times on new installs and its never worked for me.
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Posted: 06 May 2005 at 2:04am |
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FYI, Ive tried the XP Home trick about 3 times on new installs and its never worked for me. |
It's a top secret trick that Richard left out of his post. He told me via email, but if I told you then I'd have to kill you... 
Seriously, I only tried it once on a "friends" XP Home pc, and it
worked. I've not tried it again since I run Win2k Adv Server for my
test server and XP Pro on my desktops.
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davidshq
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Posted: 06 May 2005 at 4:02pm |
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Thanks for the ideas. Afraid you do have to upgrade XP Home to XP Pro,
it kind of stinks they charge the same for an XP Home-->Pro upgrade
as 98-->Pro.
David.
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Posted: 06 May 2005 at 6:58pm |
I really hate XP Home. My wife has windows mediacenter edition 2004 which is based on XP Home. The previous version was based upon XP Pro.
I tried installing IIS on it from XP Pro and from the Previous mediacenter version and it gagged on both of them.
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Posted: 07 May 2005 at 6:20am |
davidshq wrote:
Any ideas on how I could get my hands on a copy of IIS inexpensively? I
currently have Windows XP Home installed on my laptop and this
constantly causes trouble because I want to be able to run the scripts
on my local computer before I put them up on the server. Usually I can
get them to run using Web Matrix which comes with a mini-sever, but
having a full-fledged IIS would be nice. I don't want to go out and buy
a new Windows XP Professional just for that.
David.
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You could buy a cheap copy of 98/2000 at:
http://www.9software.com
or ebay might be better.
?If NT 4 workstation supports IIS?
Then you could get that quite easily.
However most of the dev. work I am doing at the moment is on PHP/Apache
as PHP has a lot more modules than ASP and if you look in script
directorys like hotscripts you will find a lot more php scripts than
ASP ones because PHP is free
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