IIS and webs in Pro

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It is my understanding that XP Professional has IIS for
developing a web but it only can handle one web. A server
edition of Windows is necessary to develop more than 1
web....what is a windows server and how do I get one?
 
It is my understanding that XP Professional has IIS for
developing a web but it only can handle one web. A server
edition of Windows is necessary to develop more than 1
web....what is a windows server and how do I get one?
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You can develop and test as many web sites as you want with iis and XP. The
limitation is you can not host and serve more than one (virtual hosts). Use
this format for development and test http://localhost/site1
http://localhost/site2 http://localhost/site3 etc etc etc ...You can not
use this format http://localhost1 http://localhost2 http://localhost3 etc
etc etc ...

Or, if you really need to host and serve several sites you buy a server
version of windows operating system. Windows 2000 server or windows 2003
server. These are server versions of windows. WinXP is not a server version
of windows.

Or, you can download Apache web server for free. Apache does not have the
one site hosting and serving limitation and can handle as many virtual
sites as you need.
 
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