personal web server on XP home edition
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Topic: personal web server on XP home edition
Posted By: ardasell
Subject: personal web server on XP home edition
Date Posted: 01 October 2007 at 3:47pm
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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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Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 01 October 2007 at 6:18pm
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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. ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |
Posted By: ardasell
Date Posted: 02 October 2007 at 9:37am
| 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? |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 02 October 2007 at 1:45pm
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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. ------------- 
Lead me not into temptation... I know the short cut, follow me. |
Posted By: ardasell
Date Posted: 02 October 2007 at 10:56pm
| thanks guys - it seems I am flogging a dead data-base, xp pro is the way to go. Thanks for the heads-up |