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Topic: IIS replacement, using dreamweaver mx?
Posted By: thedave
Subject: IIS replacement, using dreamweaver mx?
Date Posted: 30 November 2003 at 5:49pm

hi there,

i use dreamweaver to design and code my pages, ive not long after installing xp home on my pc, xp pro i dont have and i dont have the money at the moment to buy a copy and i know pro is the one i need to run IIS as xp home doesnt have it... bloody microshaft lol, just kiddin.

erm... well i know how to use dreamweaver to create asp pages connecting a database, updating the database etc through the asp page and form i make in dreamweaver, yes noob stuff your probably thinking , ive done all this in college only problem im having is i cant do this at home as i have xp home and not pro, can anyone tell me how i can run asp pages and create them locally so i can prepare them working before ftp'ing them to my server, thx, basicly i need another soluction to IIS, and i cant afford to buy pro at the time being.



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Posted By: WookMaster
Date Posted: 30 November 2003 at 6:42pm

Im not sure if it supports ASP but you can try researching APACHE web server.

 

http://httpd.apache.org/ - http://httpd.apache.org/

If it does not support ASP im sure there is a download or mod or something that will allow it too. Hope that works



Posted By: God_Struth
Date Posted: 30 November 2003 at 7:14pm
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020118.htm

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Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 30 November 2003 at 8:11pm

- "Dreamweaver" is a tool to create ASP pages, not serve ASP pages, so that has no impact here

- Apache does not support serving ASP (you'd need "ChiliSoft", which is expensive and doesn't support all of ASP functionality)

- Of one pokes around that XP Home "hack", they'd see that it doesn't widely work



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Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 01 December 2003 at 1:17am
Microsoft offers something called  Cassini which I know is used to serve up ASP.NET pages, but not sure if it will work with ASP. But worth  a try...
http://www.asp.net/Projects/Cassini/Download/Default.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=1 -
http://www.asp.net/Projects/Cassini/Download/Default.aspx? tabindex=0&tabid=1


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Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 01 December 2003 at 5:40am

Cassini only "does" ASP.NET (below straight off the website)

Cassini Sample Web Server (Updated 6/18)
The ASP.NET Cassini Web Server Sample is a sample web server written using the Microsoft® .NET® Framework, and demonstrates hosting ASP.NET using the ASP.NET hosting APIs (System.Web.Hosting).

 

Bottom line.... there is no worse OS to have on your local machine than XP Home.. it simply wasn't designed with the Web Developer in mind.. hell, even Windows Me is better for a developer than XP Home is

One option, and an option i use, is to use a program called " http://www.vmware.com - VMWare " and run another OS in a window and have that as your "Web Server", and you can connect to it via FP Extensions, FTP, all that good stuff

So i have Windows Server 2003 running inside a window on XP Pro (not wanting to use IIS on my everyday machine, various virus issues over the past years feast on improperly setup home IIS's)

and in Server 2003 i can have multiple "sites" ( http://www.morningz.com/sections/playground/files/images/vmmare_localsites.jpg - screenshot ), something you cannot do in XP Pro anyways, so this works out great

anyways, probably too much information, but hopefully it presents another option



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Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 01 December 2003 at 4:36pm
you might be able to install PWS...

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