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Topic: ASP On Apache?

Posted By: mattymatt79
Subject: ASP On Apache?
Date Posted: 12 February 2004 at 1:04pm

Since after 2 days of attempting to find and install IIS on my windows XP home box, is there a way to get Apache to read asp pages? Im not upgrading to Pro so well i need a way to read ASP some how, anyone have any good suggestions? Apache is already up and running, with the coldfusion and php connectors so it just needs asp to be complete

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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 12 February 2004 at 1:21pm

You can use ChilliASP but most software will not work on it.

Posted By: mattymatt79
Date Posted: 12 February 2004 at 2:25pm

what do you mean wont work on it?
All i need it to do is let apache parse ASP files...

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 12 February 2004 at 2:46pm

Well its not an offical version of ASP, I'm just saying it doesn't support some functions and you will have a hard time getting web wiz forums to work for example.

Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 12 February 2004 at 2:49pm

software like Webwizforums wont run properly even if you can run ASP.. basic ASP pages will work, but not advanced things with loads of serverobjects and things like that..

if you wanna code in asp, get windows xp/2000 professional or a windows server os.. Apache is for php

Posted By: mattymatt79
Date Posted: 12 February 2004 at 2:56pm

its a long story, i just want to parse asp for testing purposes, i dont plan on running any forums such as this or anything like that, i just need to be able to load what ive done in a webrowser and be like yep, sho nuff it works, so i can take work home and do it from there instead of at work more or less

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 12 February 2004 at 3:11pm

http://wwws.sun.com/software/chilisoft/index.html - http://wwws.sun.com/software/chilisoft/index.html - It can be used for simple pages

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 February 2004 at 3:45pm

If you do a search on Google there are a number of sites that have articles on about how to hack XP home editon so that you can install IIS from the XP Home Edition CD.

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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 12 February 2004 at 3:50pm

This article was wrote by huwnet for devhop.com:

HOWTO install IIS on XP home

Installing IIS on XP home
To use IIS we recommend you use XP pro. However this is a workaround for XP home.

This is not an official install procedure for IIS and we do NOT recommend attempting this without a backup copy of the files needed. We will NOT be held responsible for any damage to your pc/network whilst attempting this procedure!

locate C:\WINDOWS\INF\SYSOC.INF
edit the section called [Components]
find a line like this:
iis=iis.dll,OcEntry,iis.inf,hide,7
change it to this (the iis cab in the i386 xp home folder looks to be nothing)
iis=iis2.dll,OcEntry,iis2.inf,,7
(some sort of ms caching thing keeps sticking back iis.dll when I try to nuke it. quickly renaming and making hidden dir called iis.dll seems to thwart, but not worth it, so iis2.dll is good enough)
I grabbed the iis.dl_ and iis.in_ from win2k advanced server cd (or 200 professional).
I would guess similar techniques would work from W98, FP, etc.
Use "EXPAND IIS.DL_ IIS2.DLL" from a command prompt
Same for IIS2.INF, place IIS2.INF in C:\WINDOWS\INF and IIS2.DLL in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SETUP
Now when I did "add windows programs" from the control panel's add new programs,
I had IIS options and I could even check em off. yippee - could not check em off from my xppro cd :(((
I just went with the defaulted ones though (all i needed was iis web server)
It will prompt you for files. Get em from MS XP Home CDs, Adv Server CDs, C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\INETSRV, C:\WINDOWS\I386, etc. (It will tell you the file it needs, you just need to have a searcher going, probably the CDs will have all you need)
You can get to your IIS from Control Panel's Administrative Programs.
I stuck in an index.html file and reconfigure IIS to work like this. No go :(((
I right clicked on my inetpub folder and did something with shared folders. No go :(((
I looked at the event viewer and saw the error of my ways.
Go to IIS and goto Directory Security tab and click Edit button and Browse for the user setup on my laptop.
You can now access your site from http://localhost
IIS should be used for development only!
Even more so on XP home as you cannot install IIS patches!

This Article was written on 2/9/2004 by huwnet

Posted By: mattymatt79
Date Posted: 12 February 2004 at 3:53pm

ok if i do that,
I'll have to stop my apache server when I do that?
because Apache runs off of Localhost...
I guess i could always edit the httpd.conf file and make it read the ip address of the machine and change IIS to run off of 127.0.0.1
Would that work?
Also how reliable is this work around?

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 12 February 2004 at 3:57pm

You could run Apache on a differant port (8080 for example) or run IIS on a differant port.

Posted By: mattymatt79
Date Posted: 12 February 2004 at 3:59pm

yeah I guess so
Makes perfect sense. Thanks for the help,
I looked on the internet and didnt find anything remotly close to that post you made, only a few old threads of people saying i should install XP pro or I should just install XP pro's IIS, you'd figure if i had access to an XP pro disk, I'd just install it...
Again thanks for the help Ill try this when I get back to my house computer...

Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 12 February 2004 at 5:00pm

if this is the same mattymatt i think it is.. reach me on the other site and i can help you out

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Posted By: mattymatt79
Date Posted: 12 February 2004 at 9:09pm

Yes MorningZ its the same screen name,
I like to keep things simple stupid.... same screen name achieves that

Posted By: mattymatt79
Date Posted: 13 February 2004 at 8:44am

Well loading chilisoft didnt work
it for some reason wouldnt find either my JRun Server (coldfusion) or my apache server so well it looks im SOL and going to have to try and do the Win2K trick this weekend
I do appreciate all the help here though

Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 13 February 2004 at 11:20am

Mart wrote:

This article was wrote by huwnet for devhop.com:

HOWTO install IIS on XP home

locate C:\WINDOWS\INF\SYSOC.INF
edit the section called [Components]
find a line like this:
iis=iis.dll,OcEntry,iis.inf,hide,7
change it to this (the iis cab in the i386 xp home folder looks to be nothing)
iis=iis2.dll,OcEntry,iis2.inf,,7
(some sort of ms caching thing keeps sticking back iis.dll when I try to nuke it. quickly renaming and making hidden dir called iis.dll seems to thwart, but not worth it, so iis2.dll is good enough)
I grabbed the iis.dl_ and iis.in_ from win2k advanced server cd (or 200 professional).
I would guess similar techniques would work from W98, FP, etc.
Use "EXPAND IIS.DL_ IIS2.DLL" from a command prompt
Same for IIS2.INF, place IIS2.INF in C:\WINDOWS\INF and IIS2.DLL in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SETUP
Now when I did "add windows programs" from the control panel's add new programs,
I had IIS options and I could even check em off. yippee - could not check em off from my xppro cd :(((
I just went with the defaulted ones though (all i needed was iis web server)
It will prompt you for files. Get em from MS XP Home CDs, Adv Server CDs, C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\INETSRV, C:\WINDOWS\I386, etc. (It will tell you the file it needs, you just need to have a searcher going, probably the CDs will have all you need)
You can get to your IIS from Control Panel's Administrative Programs.
I stuck in an index.html file and reconfigure IIS to work like this. No go :(((
I right clicked on my inetpub folder and did something with shared folders. No go :(((
I looked at the event viewer and saw the error of my ways.
Go to IIS and goto Directory Security tab and click Edit button and Browse for the user setup on my laptop.
You can now access your site from http://localhost
IIS should be used for development only!
Even more so on XP home as you cannot install IIS patches!

This Article was written on 2/9/2004 by http://beta.devhop.com/forum/default.aspx?g=profile&u=6" style="font-style: italic;" id="_ctl2_hlby - huwnet

Great to see my article coming to some good use.

Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 13 February 2004 at 12:00pm

i have yet to see one person ever say: "i have IIS working on XP Home" on that article

its always "i couldn't get it to work"

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Posted By: mattymatt79
Date Posted: 13 February 2004 at 12:21pm

Well like i said,
Ill let you know if it worked or not i just have to wait to get home to try it out... i knew i should have just got XP pro instead, i might buy the upgrade, is it worth it?