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Is there any way to install internet information services on my XP Home
edition laptop without having to upgrade to XP Pro?
edition laptop without having to upgrade to XP Pro?
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John Timney \(ASP.NET MVP\)
no - not in a stable way. You can install Cassini which is a asp.net web
server, or Mono's xsp
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John Timney
ASP.NET MVP
Microsoft Regional Director
server, or Mono's xsp
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Regards
John Timney
ASP.NET MVP
Microsoft Regional Director
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Simon
If you look around on the internet for "install IIS XP Home" you will find
that you can indeed get IIS running on XP Home.
However, as John said, this is a bitch to get working and requires a lot of
playing with settings even senior programmers wouldnt be happy tinkering.
My advise personally would be to go with the suggestions john made or take
the plunge and upgrade to Pro. I looked around on ebay and got the upgrade
for about 50 quid for a fully legitemate copy.
Bear in mind though:
- The Pro version lets you use Remote Control to dial up your computer and
control it from anywhere in the world. Home doesn't support that. It
supports Remote Assistance but not unsolicited remote control. For me that
feature was at least as important as IIS. It's shit hot as well. Nicely
implemented. Hell of a lot nicer to use that PCAnywhere Version 9
- Although you get the option of installing IIS under XP Pro, its a severely
crippled version that can make developing more than one application at a
time a complete pain in the arse. You're only allowed to host one site at a
time meaning that you have to use virtual directories which cause problems
with relative addressing in my applications. That may just be me, but I've
heard a lot of people complaining about this. A far better solution would be
to allow the user to make as many sites as possible but only allow say three
concurrent connections. At the moment I think your allowed something like
10.
- The next versions of Visual Studio (2005) comes with its own webserver
that lets you create .net applications independently of IIS. I'm guessing
that it'll allow making mutiple applications a lot easier than is currently
the case under IIS.
Personally I found the ability to control my machine from any place on the
planet and the ability to develop at least one application easily on my
local machine enough to warrant the £50 upgrade. I wouldnt pay any more than
that though if all you want to do is use IIS. Amazon.co.uk has an ok price
if youre a student (£63).
If you're not a student and only want to play with asp.net websites with
Visual Studio then the £160 upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro is really taking
the piss.
I could give you some more information on your server options if you could
give some more info on specifically what you would like your server for. My
suggestion would be different depending on say, whether you wanted to server
ASP as opposed to making ASP.Net applications
I hope that helps a bit
Kind Regards
Simon
that you can indeed get IIS running on XP Home.
However, as John said, this is a bitch to get working and requires a lot of
playing with settings even senior programmers wouldnt be happy tinkering.
My advise personally would be to go with the suggestions john made or take
the plunge and upgrade to Pro. I looked around on ebay and got the upgrade
for about 50 quid for a fully legitemate copy.
Bear in mind though:
- The Pro version lets you use Remote Control to dial up your computer and
control it from anywhere in the world. Home doesn't support that. It
supports Remote Assistance but not unsolicited remote control. For me that
feature was at least as important as IIS. It's shit hot as well. Nicely
implemented. Hell of a lot nicer to use that PCAnywhere Version 9
- Although you get the option of installing IIS under XP Pro, its a severely
crippled version that can make developing more than one application at a
time a complete pain in the arse. You're only allowed to host one site at a
time meaning that you have to use virtual directories which cause problems
with relative addressing in my applications. That may just be me, but I've
heard a lot of people complaining about this. A far better solution would be
to allow the user to make as many sites as possible but only allow say three
concurrent connections. At the moment I think your allowed something like
10.
- The next versions of Visual Studio (2005) comes with its own webserver
that lets you create .net applications independently of IIS. I'm guessing
that it'll allow making mutiple applications a lot easier than is currently
the case under IIS.
Personally I found the ability to control my machine from any place on the
planet and the ability to develop at least one application easily on my
local machine enough to warrant the £50 upgrade. I wouldnt pay any more than
that though if all you want to do is use IIS. Amazon.co.uk has an ok price
if youre a student (£63).
If you're not a student and only want to play with asp.net websites with
Visual Studio then the £160 upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro is really taking
the piss.
I could give you some more information on your server options if you could
give some more info on specifically what you would like your server for. My
suggestion would be different depending on say, whether you wanted to server
ASP as opposed to making ASP.Net applications
I hope that helps a bit
Kind Regards
Simon
S
Simon
If you look around on the internet for "install IIS XP Home" you will find
that you can indeed get IIS running on XP Home.
However, as John said, this is a bitch to get working and requires a lot of
playing with settings even senior programmers wouldnt be happy tinkering.
My advise personally would be to go with the suggestions john made or take
the plunge and upgrade to Pro. I looked around on ebay and got the upgrade
for about 50 quid for a fully legitemate copy.
Bear in mind though:
- The Pro version lets you use Remote Control to dial up your computer and
control it from anywhere in the world. Home doesn't support that. It
supports Remote Assistance but not unsolicited remote control. For me that
feature was at least as important as IIS. It's shit hot as well. Nicely
implemented. Hell of a lot nicer to use that PCAnywhere Version 9
- Although you get the option of installing IIS under XP Pro, its a severely
crippled version that can make developing more than one application at a
time a complete pain in the arse. You're only allowed to host one site at a
time meaning that you have to use virtual directories which cause problems
with relative addressing in my applications. That may just be me, but I've
heard a lot of people complaining about this. A far better solution would be
to allow the user to make as many sites as possible but only allow say three
concurrent connections. At the moment I think your allowed something like
10.
- The next versions of Visual Studio (2005) comes with its own webserver
that lets you create .net applications independently of IIS. I'm guessing
that it'll allow making mutiple applications a lot easier than is currently
the case under IIS.
Personally I found the ability to control my machine from any place on the
planet and the ability to develop at least one application easily on my
local machine enough to warrant the £50 upgrade. I wouldnt pay any more than
that though if all you want to do is use IIS. Amazon.co.uk has an ok price
if youre a student (£63).
If you're not a student and only want to play with asp.net websites with
Visual Studio then the £160 upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro is really taking
the piss.
I could give you some more information on your server options if you could
give some more info on specifically what you would like your server for. My
suggestion would be different depending on say, whether you wanted to server
ASP as opposed to making ASP.Net applications
I hope that helps a bit
Kind Regards
Simon
that you can indeed get IIS running on XP Home.
However, as John said, this is a bitch to get working and requires a lot of
playing with settings even senior programmers wouldnt be happy tinkering.
My advise personally would be to go with the suggestions john made or take
the plunge and upgrade to Pro. I looked around on ebay and got the upgrade
for about 50 quid for a fully legitemate copy.
Bear in mind though:
- The Pro version lets you use Remote Control to dial up your computer and
control it from anywhere in the world. Home doesn't support that. It
supports Remote Assistance but not unsolicited remote control. For me that
feature was at least as important as IIS. It's shit hot as well. Nicely
implemented. Hell of a lot nicer to use that PCAnywhere Version 9
- Although you get the option of installing IIS under XP Pro, its a severely
crippled version that can make developing more than one application at a
time a complete pain in the arse. You're only allowed to host one site at a
time meaning that you have to use virtual directories which cause problems
with relative addressing in my applications. That may just be me, but I've
heard a lot of people complaining about this. A far better solution would be
to allow the user to make as many sites as possible but only allow say three
concurrent connections. At the moment I think your allowed something like
10.
- The next versions of Visual Studio (2005) comes with its own webserver
that lets you create .net applications independently of IIS. I'm guessing
that it'll allow making mutiple applications a lot easier than is currently
the case under IIS.
Personally I found the ability to control my machine from any place on the
planet and the ability to develop at least one application easily on my
local machine enough to warrant the £50 upgrade. I wouldnt pay any more than
that though if all you want to do is use IIS. Amazon.co.uk has an ok price
if youre a student (£63).
If you're not a student and only want to play with asp.net websites with
Visual Studio then the £160 upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro is really taking
the piss.
I could give you some more information on your server options if you could
give some more info on specifically what you would like your server for. My
suggestion would be different depending on say, whether you wanted to server
ASP as opposed to making ASP.Net applications
I hope that helps a bit
Kind Regards
Simon
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Guest
Dear Simon,
thank you so much for the excellent response.
I am currently studying for my MCP in developing web apps with C# and VS
..NET, via a distance learning course with Computeach International. Part of
the course is the Microsoft Press MCAD book for exam 070-315 and I only need
the IIS so that I can create the virtual folders it has told me to create.
I am very new to programming (less than 9 months) and have only had a
computer for 3 years, so a lot of these things are totally new to me.
I won't be needing to create more than one application at a time but I will
be creating multi-document applications, so the XP Pro version of IIS would
suffice.
The thing that gets me is that when I downloaded the SQL Server from MSDE I
had to configure my IIS settings to get it to work, but now I can't find IIS
anywhere on my computer! I've looked in Admin tools but it isn't there, it
isn't in Add/Remove COM Components either. I've tried a search for it but
nothing came up. If it's possible to open the IIS screen through either the
command prompt or the Run... utility I only need the proper command to try
that out.
I'd really appreceiate it if you could come up with a solution for my
particular case.
Kind regards,
Alan
thank you so much for the excellent response.
I am currently studying for my MCP in developing web apps with C# and VS
..NET, via a distance learning course with Computeach International. Part of
the course is the Microsoft Press MCAD book for exam 070-315 and I only need
the IIS so that I can create the virtual folders it has told me to create.
I am very new to programming (less than 9 months) and have only had a
computer for 3 years, so a lot of these things are totally new to me.
I won't be needing to create more than one application at a time but I will
be creating multi-document applications, so the XP Pro version of IIS would
suffice.
The thing that gets me is that when I downloaded the SQL Server from MSDE I
had to configure my IIS settings to get it to work, but now I can't find IIS
anywhere on my computer! I've looked in Admin tools but it isn't there, it
isn't in Add/Remove COM Components either. I've tried a search for it but
nothing came up. If it's possible to open the IIS screen through either the
command prompt or the Run... utility I only need the proper command to try
that out.
I'd really appreceiate it if you could come up with a solution for my
particular case.
Kind regards,
Alan
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cashdeskmac said:Dear Simon,
The thing that gets me is that when I downloaded the SQL Server from MSDE I
had to configure my IIS settings to get it to work, but now I can't find IIS
anywhere on my computer! I've looked in Admin tools but it isn't there, it
isn't in Add/Remove COM Components either. I've tried a search for it but
nothing came up. If it's possible to open the IIS screen through either the
command prompt or the Run... utility I only need the proper command to try
that out.
I'd really appreceiate it if you could come up with a solution for my
particular case.
You already have been shown the solutions that apply to your
particular case. Either:
- Upgrade to XP Pro and install IIS or
- get Cassini and make due
Cassini
http://asp.net/Projects/Cassini/Download/Default.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=1
Vs.Net using Cassini works
http://asp.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?tabindex=1&PostID=742551
You are left with the option of throwing money at the
problem (Upgrade to XP Professional) or time (trying to
figure out how Cassini works and make it work for your
situation; simply memorize IIS material that relates to
70-315; this might be a bit challenging and frustrating at
your particular level but ultimately thats how all of us pay
our dues in our field). Right now you are wasting time on
trying to find IIS where doesn't exist (and it doesn't exist
in XP Home).
Now if it makes you happy: the Internet Information Services
Management Console (iis.msc) can be started on an XP Pro
machine from the Run prompt with:
%SystemRoot%\System32\inetsrv\iis.msc
which usually translates to:
C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\iis.msc
The presence of the management console (if it is in fact
present) does not imply that that IIS itself is present
(i.e. the VCR-style control tool bar buttons probably don't
work when you high-light the "Default Web Site"; the console
may exibit "crippled" functionality in general).
For all you know, you were looking at some kind of
installation configuration screen that popped up because the
installation could not find IIS and it needed the settings
satisfied for some bizarre reason. Many moons ago I
installed the MSDE on a machine and I don't recall any such
screen (nor having to fiddle with IIS) - but then again I
installed it on XP Pro.