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    Posted: 01 October 2007 at 3:47pm
Well guys, complete newbie here, you probably have answered this ten thousand times, but i can't find it.  I need to build my first asp site, and I can't find a server that will allow me top see what i am bloody doing before I start.
I am using dreamweaver MX if that matters.  Please help
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Upgrade to XP Pro. It's very cheap now... XP Pro features IIS, the web server that enables you to run ASP files.
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Thanks for that advice, but I was hoping to not have to dung out the whole machine for this one job - do you know of a work-around at all? 
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There's a few articles around about installing IIS on XP Home, but also a lot of dead bodies along that path. Not something for the faint of heart and there seem to be more failures than successes. Failures usually resulted in a hosed up machine.

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thanks guys - it seems I am flogging a dead data-base, xp pro is the way to go. Thanks for the heads-up
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