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Topic: What version of Windows?

Posted By: wolfie
Subject: What version of Windows?
Date Posted: 14 August 2004 at 7:11am

Okay, I am a bit rusty on what versions of Windows allow what and I need to know one thing.

What versions of Windows allow multiple top-level domains?

I got Windows XP Pro, which allows one top-level (unless it can handle more and I am wrong). But I need a copy of Windows which allows me to have more than one so I can develop websites. At the moment, with XP Pro, all I can do is work with a sub-directory or use the localhost directory and remove files I have there any way and import the new ones.

I only want it for web-development with ASP and ASP.NET so it's just the one licence I need (and cheap as possible!). I can get 2000 Pro, but it doesn't have the top-level domain support (so I am to beleive at the moment!).

Any help is great. Cheers!

[Also, if you have your own opinions on what is the better Windows to use then please say so. I may splash out more if it's worth the extra bucks!]

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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 14 August 2004 at 8:31am

http://localhost/iishelp/ - http://localhost/iishelp/ Should give you what you need.

IIS on xp pro works on virtual host basis. You can assign any directory on your machine as a web site, Assign separate ip's for it, etc... Running a couple dozen different development sites on XP pro at the moment.

BTW: - Had this IIS Forum in my Bookmarks - http://forums.aspfree.com/forumdisplay.php?f=12 - http://forums.aspfree.com/forumdisplay.php?f=12

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Posted By: wolfie
Date Posted: 14 August 2004 at 11:24am

Aren't they running like http://localhost/site1 - http://localhost/site1 , http://localhost/site2 - http://localhost/site2 and so on? What I want to be able to do is run it like http://site1/ - http://site1/ , http://site2/ - http://site2/ , and so on.

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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 14 August 2004 at 1:52pm

AFAIK for that you would need to use Windows Server 2003 or 2000 because they both support Host headers.

Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 14 August 2004 at 2:11pm

wolfie wrote:

Aren't they running like http://localhost/site1 - http://localhost/site1 , http://localhost/site2 - http://localhost/site2 and so on? What I want to be able to do is run it like http://site1/ - http://site1/ , http://site2/ - http://site2/ , and so on.

Just out of curiosity, why do you want to do that?

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Posted By: wolfie
Date Posted: 14 August 2004 at 2:18pm

It's how I write programs for sites. I use the root folder, I don't like using the virtual directory (just funny like that). It's easier for people to remeber a url for a sub-directory without having the extra virtual directory level.

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