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re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 3:54 pm Posted by Dave Gottardi (1 messages posted) I don't have an answer (sorry to say). I also have the same problem of not having a PWS to build my ASP based web pages. This limitation is very annoying since XP is supposed to be superior to Win98! What a dissapointement! Dave G. On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 11:55 am, Arthur Cunneen wrote: >Another - apparently not well known - difference between XP Home and XP Professional >is that the former does not come with a copy of Personal Web Server (PWS). It did >come with Windows 98 and I understand that it does come with Home Professional. >(Does anyone know if that is true?) > >I am teaching myself to build websites and I cannot afford to build or buy a work >bench, so PWS is important to me. > >Does anyone know if there is a structural difference between XP Home and XP Pro that >prohibits the use of the XP Pro verison of PWS with XP Home? > >Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the XP Pro version of PWS? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Wednesday, August 7, 2002 at 3:38 pm Posted by Dub Dublin (1 messages posted) PWS was pretty much a joke anyway. If you're looking to learn how to build a real website, go ahead and use what the real professionals use: Apache. It's the most popular web server on the planet, and because of the horrendous (and darn near unfixable) security flaws in Microsoft's IIS, Apache is becoming far more common even in Windows shops. You can download the Win32 version here: http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/ It runs beautifully on Windows, and of course, Solaris, the BSDs, and Linux. BSD and Apache is a very serious, but very inexpensive server platform, used by many large commercial sites. Oh, and it's free, so it should fit any budget... :-) On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 11:55 am, Arthur Cunneen wrote: >Another - apparently not well known - difference between XP Home and XP Professional >is that the former does not come with a copy of Personal Web Server (PWS). It did >come with Windows 98 and I understand that it does come with Home Professional. >(Does anyone know if that is true?) > >I am teaching myself to build websites and I cannot afford to build or buy a work >bench, so PWS is important to me. > >Does anyone know if there is a structural difference between XP Home and XP Pro that >prohibits the use of the XP Pro verison of PWS with XP Home? > >Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the XP Pro version of PWS? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Thursday, August 29, 2002 at 6:16 pm Posted by redsun (4 messages posted) I found a newsgroup posting that explains how to install IIS on xp home edition. Take a look at http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3c3c9b9d.518663173%40news [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 10:50 am Posted by Deborah (2 messages posted) XP Home Edition does not support the use of PWS. Microsoft's web site actually says: If you wanted to use the web service tools, then you should have bought XP Professional. On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 11:55 am, Arthur Cunneen wrote: >Another - apparently not well known - difference between XP Home and XP Professional >is that the former does not come with a copy of Personal Web Server (PWS). It did >come with Windows 98 and I understand that it does come with Home Professional. >(Does anyone know if that is true?) > >I am teaching myself to build websites and I cannot afford to build or buy a work >bench, so PWS is important to me. > >Does anyone know if there is a structural difference between XP Home and XP Pro that >prohibits the use of the XP Pro verison of PWS with XP Home? > >Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the XP Pro version of PWS? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 10:53 am Posted by Deborah (2 messages posted) Does Apache work with XP Home? Have you tested it out? Also does anyone if Xitami will work with XP Home? On Wednesday, August 7, 2002 at 3:38 pm, Dub Dublin wrote: >PWS was pretty much a joke anyway. If you're looking to learn how to build a real >website, go ahead and use what the real professionals use: Apache. It's the most >popular web server on the planet, and because of the horrendous (and darn near unfixable) >security flaws in Microsoft's IIS, Apache is becoming far more common even in Windows >shops. You can download the Win32 version here: http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/ > >It runs beautifully on Windows, and of course, Solaris, the BSDs, and Linux. BSD >and Apache is a very serious, but very inexpensive server platform, used by many >large commercial sites. Oh, and it's free, so it should fit any budget... :-) > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Wednesday, October 16, 2002 at 6:32 pm Posted by James (1 messages posted) If I run the Win32 version of Apache web server, will it run ASP pages correctly? If so, will the ASP pages read databases correctly? I am currently using an Access 2000 base but plan to up it to SQL Server 2000 soon. Thanks, -Skateman On Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 10:53 am, Deborah wrote: >Does Apache work with XP Home? Have you tested it out? Also does anyone if Xitami >will work with XP Home? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Thursday, October 17, 2002 at 10:39 pm Posted by Mitzrah (1 messages posted) >If I run the Win32 version of Apache web server, will it run ASP pages correctly? > If so, will the ASP pages read databases correctly? I am currently using an Access >2000 base but plan to up it to SQL Server 2000 soon. To my knowledge, the answer is No. The reason is because only Microsoft based Web Servers have the ASP engine to run ASP scripts. Hence, on IIS version and PWS you can run ASP scripts but not on Apache or any other brand of web servers. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Tuesday, November 12, 2002 at 2:00 pm Posted by Walt (1 messages posted) This is from the apache website: http://nagoya.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/#xpbug Windows XP Apache Users Read This First If you will install Apache on Windows XP, you must install the Windows XP Service Pack 1. You may obtain that service pack from; http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/servicepacks/sp1/default.asp Additional Warning: we recommend disabling the "Quality of Service" (or QoS) network driver from Microsoft if you are using Apache, since Apache does not support the QoS extensions to the WinSock API. The original distribution of Windows XP may expose you to a known bug, reported by users of Apache 1.3 and 2.0 on Windows XP. The effects of this bug are particularly observed in conjunction with https SSL/TLS connections, but also occurs in other contexts. It appears the combination of duplicating file handles between and parent and child process, in conjunction with blocking sends to the http client may result in corrupted output. You may not see corruption in MSIE, which tends to throw any error in the 'Cannot find server or DNS Error' category, rather than explaining the real error or display the corruption. You will only see this corruption over slower links, testing the local loopback (localhost) generally reveals no corruption. This is a potential security risk, since the random, corrupt data served may come from anywhere, such as the cache of buffered file pages containing sensitive data. If you receive such errors on Windows XP using SSI scripting or PHP scripts, but not static pages, you are probably a victim of this bug. Microsoft initially released a hotfix for the issue, that has been superceeded by the Service Pack 1 release. MSKB article Q317949 addresses this bug On Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 10:53 am, Deborah wrote: >Does Apache work with XP Home? Have you tested it out? Also does anyone if Xitami >will work with XP Home? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Thursday, November 14, 2002 at 10:58 am Posted by david (1 messages posted) I'm currently learning PHP as I was told that Apache web servers would not recognize ASP written in VBScript. Have I been misinformed? HELP! -steamedham On Wednesday, October 16, 2002 at 6:32 pm, James wrote: >If I run the Win32 version of Apache web server, will it run ASP pages correctly? > If so, will the ASP pages read databases correctly? I am currently using an Access >2000 base but plan to up it to SQL Server 2000 soon. > >Thanks, >-Skateman > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Wednesday, November 20, 2002 at 8:02 am Posted by rob (1 messages posted) Upgrading to XP Pro is about $180. If you just want a web server for development use, get Xitami. It's a free, stand-alone server that's very lightweight -- abt 1 MB -- well documented and runs right out of the box. I've got it running on my XP Home system now. It's been running about a week now and I haven't noticed any conflicts or slowdowns while the server is running in the background. Here's the URL: http://www.imatix.com/html/xitami/index.htm If Microsoft continues to offer half-solutions and products that don't get the job done, people will go elsewhere. -- rbc On Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 10:50 am, Deborah wrote: >XP Home Edition does not support the use of PWS. Microsoft's web site actually says: >If you wanted to use the web service tools, then you should have bought XP Professional. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Friday, November 22, 2002 at 10:03 am Posted by jf (1 messages posted) Well i Have XP pro, andI cant' find xitami for xp, and when i try to install any other windows version like nt or 9x it syas corrupted installation... On Wednesday, November 20, 2002 at 8:02 am, rob wrote: >Upgrading to XP Pro is about $180. If you just want a web server for development >use, get Xitami. > >It's a free, stand-alone server that's very lightweight -- abt 1 MB -- well documented >and runs right out of the box. I've got it running on my XP Home system now. It's >been running about a week now and I haven't noticed any conflicts or slowdowns while >the server is running in the background. > >Here's the URL: http://www.imatix.com/html/xitami/index.htm > >If Microsoft continues to offer half-solutions and products that don't get the job >done, people will go elsewhere. > >-- rbc > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Tuesday, November 26, 2002 at 11:29 pm Posted by Linda Dunn (7 messages posted) Here's the direct link to the version of Xitami that you need for XP: http://users.skynet.be/sky37432/bw3225b4.exe This worked like a charm for me (and I'm using XP Home Edition). I just used all the defaults and it started itself right up, first try. On Friday, November 22, 2002 at 10:03 am, jf wrote: >Well i Have XP pro, andI cant' find xitami for xp, and when i try to install any >other windows version like nt or 9x it syas corrupted installation... > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Wednesday, November 27, 2002 at 8:19 pm Posted by Linda Dunn (7 messages posted) I've just gone through a lot of trouble setting up a local server on XP Home Ed., and found that PHPTriad installs perfectly right off the bat, no trouble. I had tried installing Xitami with PHP (Xitami installed without a problem. PHP with Xitami was another matter), and also PHPDev and EasyPHP (lol. I have been desperate, as you can see). But PHPTriad is the only one that didn't give me trouble. PHPTriad 2.x is freeware, but its 3.x version (renamed Sokkit) is available for $19.95. I bought it, and it was money well spent -- it's preconfigured with Apache/PHP, but the really cool part is the control panel interface. If you are like me and don't really know that much about server technology, and just need to get a testing environment up and running for web design, this is definitely $20 well-spent. There are modules planned for other scripting languages, also, and the company offers IM support. URL for pay version is http://www.sokkit.net/ You can still get the free version at SourceForge, here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phptriad/ [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Saturday, November 30, 2002 at 4:27 am Posted by Saeed Ghazagh (1 messages posted) Hi, i have a windows CD wich has PWS instalation program. I installed it on windows XP home edition. Contact me and i will send it to you if you want. Regards:S@eed.Gh On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 11:55 am, Arthur Cunneen wrote: >Another - apparently not well known - difference between XP Home and XP Professional >is that the former does not come with a copy of Personal Web Server (PWS). It did >come with Windows 98 and I understand that it does come with Home Professional. >(Does anyone know if that is true?) > >I am teaching myself to build websites and I cannot afford to build or buy a work >bench, so PWS is important to me. > >Does anyone know if there is a structural difference between XP Home and XP Pro that >prohibits the use of the XP Pro verison of PWS with XP Home? > >Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the XP Pro version of PWS? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Monday, December 2, 2002 at 12:03 am Posted by Daryl (2 messages posted) Is this a Windows CD? If so, what version? On Saturday, November 30, 2002 at 4:27 am, Saeed Ghazagh wrote: >Hi, >i have a windows CD wich has PWS instalation program. >I installed it on windows XP home edition. >Contact me and i will send it to you if you want. >Regards:S@eed.Gh > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Monday, December 2, 2002 at 12:06 am Posted by Daryl (2 messages posted) Unfortunely I just bought a Dell Laptop, and XP Pro wasn't an available option in my configuration?!! Does anyone know if you can upgrade XP Home to XP Professional? Or is it a reinstall. Also, if I go the Apache route, does XP Home support Active Perl? Funny, I just assumed PWS would come with it! Very disappointed! On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 3:54 pm, Dave Gottardi wrote: >I don't have an answer (sorry to say). I also have the same problem of not having >a PWS to build my ASP based web pages. This limitation is very annoying since XP >is supposed to be superior to Win98! What a dissapointement! > >Dave G. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Tuesday, December 10, 2002 at 12:30 am Posted by Marie JAniz (1 messages posted) Thanks I got your message. I really need to have a PWS in my XP Home but I really don't know how and I doesn't have the installer. I really appreciate it if you would share it to me. Thank you so much. On Monday, December 2, 2002 at 12:03 am, Daryl wrote: > >Is this a Windows CD? If so, what version? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Wednesday, December 11, 2002 at 7:00 am Posted by Paul Muraille (1 messages posted) Apache and ASP There are open source solutions to "link" Apache and ASP. For those who are ready to drop VBScript and learn Perlscript, Apache::ASP provides an Active Server Pages port to the Apache Web Server and enables developing of dynamic web applications with session management and embedded perl code: see http://www.apache-asp.org/. Note that there seems to be another solution using Perl, ActiveState's PerlScript which can be accessed from the homepage of the url above. I haven't tested those solutions yet, but they seem a good starting point to test a change from PWS (IIS) to Apache without loosing all your development work in ASP. As regards connecting to MS SQL server databases, there are several perl scripts managing it. E.g. see http://octopus.cdut.edu.cn/~yf17/perlcd/sysadmin/ch07_03.htm. However, if you switch to Apache, you might also consider switching to php as this might be more efficient than trying to link Apache and ASP. Switching from MS solutions to open source solutions may require some initial effort as these are two totally different worlds. However, it might be worth the learning effort as, in the end, these are free solutions ported under Windows. Readers who have some realife experience with these ASP through perl-scripting solutions, let us know if they're worthy. Thanks, Paul On Wednesday, October 16, 2002 at 6:32 pm, James wrote: >If I run the Win32 version of Apache web server, will it run ASP pages correctly? > If so, will the ASP pages read databases correctly? I am currently using an Access >2000 base but plan to up it to SQL Server 2000 soon. > >Thanks, >-Skateman > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Wednesday, December 11, 2002 at 3:54 pm Posted by Claudio Araya (1 messages posted) Hi, Saeed, Of course, I need the PWS or IIS in my Windows XP HE, so could you tell me how can I install it? please.... thank you, On Saturday, November 30, 2002 at 4:27 am, Saeed Ghazagh wrote: >Hi, >i have a windows CD wich has PWS instalation program. >I installed it on windows XP home edition. >Contact me and i will send it to you if you want. >Regards:S@eed.Gh > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Sunday, December 29, 2002 at 2:52 pm Posted by mike Bat (1 messages posted) Hi I am in the UK Could you email me the PWS files as well please cheers Mike On Saturday, November 30, 2002 at 4:27 am, Saeed Ghazagh wrote: >Hi, >i have a windows CD wich has PWS instalation program. >I installed it on windows XP home edition. >Contact me and i will send it to you if you want. >Regards:S@eed.Gh > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Monday, December 30, 2002 at 1:38 pm Posted by Wong (1 messages posted) See here http://www.15seconds.com/Issue/020118.htm how to install IIS on WinXP Home. I did it and it works perfect!!! On Wednesday, December 11, 2002 at 3:54 pm, Claudio Araya wrote: > >Hi, Saeed, > > Of course, I need the PWS or IIS in my Windows XP HE, so could you tell me how >can I install it? please.... > >thank you, > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Saturday, January 4, 2003 at 10:44 pm Posted by Locksley (1 messages posted) Hi Saeed please email the files I would need for installing PWS on my XP HE Thanks On Saturday, November 30, 2002 at 4:27 am, Saeed Ghazagh wrote: >Hi, >i have a windows CD wich has PWS instalation program. >I installed it on windows XP home edition. >Contact me and i will send it to you if you want. >Regards:S@eed.Gh > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Sunday, January 5, 2003 at 5:01 am Posted by Simon Byrne (2 messages posted) Hello I am trying to develop a web page with asp pages but am unable to run on XP Home (very annoying) is it possible you could email the relevant files pws files to me. Thanks for your time Simon On Sunday, December 29, 2002 at 2:52 pm, mike Bat wrote: >Hi > >I am in the UK > >Could you email me the PWS files as well please > >cheers Mike > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Monday, January 6, 2003 at 2:14 pm Posted by Simon Byrne (2 messages posted) Hello Saeed, I would be extremely grateful if you could email me the relevant setup files required to run the personal web server on windows xp home. Thanks Simon On Saturday, November 30, 2002 at 4:27 am, Saeed Ghazagh wrote: >Hi, >i have a windows CD wich has PWS instalation program. >I installed it on windows XP home edition. >Contact me and i will send it to you if you want. >Regards:S@eed.Gh > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Wednesday, January 8, 2003 at 11:41 pm Posted by Omar Vives (1 messages posted) Hi, S@eed, I have two questions: 1.- Which PWS did you instal over your Windows XP HE? (PWS 4.0 or 5.0 o h?) 2.- How can you send me a copy of your PWS? Regards On Saturday, November 30, 2002 at 4:27 am, Saeed Ghazagh wrote: >Hi, >i have a windows CD wich has PWS instalation program. >I installed it on windows XP home edition. >Contact me and i will send it to you if you want. >Regards:S@eed.Gh > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 5:04 pm Posted by MAGnUm (2 messages posted) WIN XP PRO comes with IIS if you people want to use IIS all you need to do is install its on the cd. also apache is great go to http://www.firepages.com.au/ its an easy to use apache web server for php, but for you asp people (WHY) iis is there i promise. if you got issues call microsoft they will tell you how to install. and yes iis does the same thing as pws. just better! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 5:10 pm Posted by MAGnUm (2 messages posted) WIN XP COMES WITH IIS (BETTER THAN PWS) ITS ON THE CD!!!! On Sunday, January 5, 2003 at 5:01 am, Simon Byrne wrote: > >Hello I am trying to develop a web page with asp pages but am unable to run on XP >Home (very annoying) is it possible you could email the relevant files pws files >to me. > >Thanks for your time >Simon > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 9:53 am Posted by Anshul Sirur (1 messages posted) This version doesn't work either, and I REALLY need xitami. Please help. On Tuesday, November 26, 2002 at 11:29 pm, Linda Dunn wrote: >Here's the direct link to the version of Xitami that you need for XP: > >http://users.skynet.be/sky37432/bw3225b4.exe > >This worked like a charm for me (and I'm using XP Home Edition). I just used all >the defaults and it started itself right up, first try. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 8:33 am Posted by Jayaram Krishnaswamy (1 messages posted) I teach web programming and I naturally play around with different kinds of software/hardware. The answer to your question is yes. Yes Apache server can be installed on both Windows XP Home edition as well as windows 2000 server. However, if you are running IIS 5.0 then you may have to switch between the two web servers[IIS or Apache]. The best item to find for installing is to find a Apache binary download site. Now I do not even want to look at PWS, a mcikey-mouse Microsoft product which is flaky at best. The onus of configuring the config file can be sometimes trouble some with Apache installations. I hope this motivates you to move further. On Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 10:53 am, Deborah wrote: >Does Apache work with XP Home? Have you tested it out? Also does anyone if Xitami >will work with XP Home? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Monday, January 27, 2003 at 4:13 am Posted by Brendan (1 messages posted) I neither think that it is legal to add such features, nor is it probably recommended as hacking your os to do something it was specifically designed NOT to do can lead to probs... However, this gives you the oppertunity to try something with some real meat! I'm speaking of apache, the open source web server... Apache is platform agnostic... It doesn't care what it's run on as long as its binary compatable with the OS (Windows, MacOS, Linux, etc...) So give that a try... You'll find it works quite well (after you tweak xp home to provide more bandwidth, that is.. MS Limits the bandwith to 20% of potential.. there are tools built into Home that Let you tweak that without touching the registry...) The final benefit of this is once you learn apache, You Don't NEED TO RELEARN... Might be a steep Grade at first, but Once it works, it works and you can migrate your page to any os which supports appache (win Flavors Included)... So Good Luck, and Viva Open Source!!! On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 11:55 am, Arthur Cunneen wrote: >Another - apparently not well known - difference between XP Home and XP Professional >is that the former does not come with a copy of Personal Web Server (PWS). It did >come with Windows 98 and I understand that it does come with Home Professional. >(Does anyone know if that is true?) > >I am teaching myself to build websites and I cannot afford to build or buy a work >bench, so PWS is important to me. > >Does anyone know if there is a structural difference between XP Home and XP Pro that >prohibits the use of the XP Pro verison of PWS with XP Home? > >Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the XP Pro version of PWS? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 2:57 am Posted by Rick (1 messages posted) Not the point. We require an environment to develop and explore ASP. It's a reasonable expectation that PWS or some form would be included in XP HE as it had come with the previous versions of Windows. This is going to impact those of us who would like to learn ASP . . . certainly a lousy way to advance M$ technologies. Unfortunately, many of us will gravitate into the Open Source camp for just such an attitude on M$'s part. As far as I'm concerned, if I purchased a previous version of Windows, then I have the rights to use PWS included in that version. Set a 'restore' point and I'll try. I certainly have no interest in speding upgrade money for a product that used to be free and part of the OS. It's like most of M$ development tools (VStudio for example). Who has got the money to keep buying them year after year. But we play in their camp. Microsoft technologies are here . . . they are being used and I would like to learn them if for no other reason than being able to tell others why they 'should not be using them.' On Monday, January 27, 2003 at 4:13 am, Brendan wrote: >I neither think that it is legal to add such features, nor is it probably recommended >as hacking your os to do something it was specifically designed NOT to do can lead >to probs... However, this gives you the oppertunity to try something with some real >meat! I'm speaking of apache, the open source web server... Apache is platform agnostic... >It doesn't care what it's run on as long as its binary compatable with the OS (Windows, >MacOS, Linux, etc...) So give that a try... You'll find it works quite well (after >you tweak xp home to provide more bandwidth, that is.. MS Limits the bandwith to >20% of potential.. there are tools built into Home that Let you tweak that without >touching the registry...) The final benefit of this is once you learn apache, You >Don't NEED TO RELEARN... Might be a steep Grade at first, but Once it works, it works >and you can migrate your page to any os which supports appache (win Flavors Included)... >So Good Luck, and Viva Open Source!!! > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Monday, February 17, 2003 at 1:56 am Posted by StarGoku (1 messages posted) Could you send me PWS Thanks On Saturday, November 30, 2002 at 4:27 am, Saeed Ghazagh wrote: >Hi, >i have a windows CD wich has PWS instalation program. >I installed it on windows XP home edition. >Contact me and i will send it to you if you want. >Regards:S@eed.Gh > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Wednesday, February 26, 2003 at 5:39 am Posted by Chris (2 messages posted) That's interesting cos I have two PCs here, one pre-installed with XP Home and one upgraded from ME. Neither accept this routine with or without Service Pack 1 loaded. Sure removing the "Hide" command from the Sysoc file reveals the optional component but neither machoine allows it to be checked and therefore installed. Any bright ideas from here? On Monday, December 30, 2002 at 1:38 pm, Wong wrote: >See here http://www.15seconds.com/Issue/020118.htm how to install IIS on WinXP Home. >I did it and it works perfect!!! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Wednesday, February 26, 2003 at 2:20 pm Posted by Anandkumar (1 messages posted) Hi, Can u pls help me to install PWS on my XP HE .Bfore u send me this pls let me know if i have to pay for this. Thanku On Saturday, January 4, 2003 at 10:44 pm, Locksley wrote: >Hi Saeed please email the files I would need for installing PWS on my XP HE Thanks > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Friday, February 28, 2003 at 3:03 pm Posted by Buck Bundy (1 messages posted) Yeah, I have a college assignment to complete in ASP. I don't think it would go down too well if I did it in PHP instead and tried to blame Microsoft! On Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 2:57 am, Rick wrote: >Not the point. We require an environment to develop and explore ASP. It's a reasonable >expectation that PWS or some form would be included in XP HE as it had come with >the previous versions of Windows. > >This is going to impact those of us who would like to learn ASP . . . certainly a >lousy way to advance M$ technologies. Unfortunately, many of us will gravitate into >the Open Source camp for just such an attitude on M$'s part. > >As far as I'm concerned, if I purchased a previous version of Windows, then I have >the rights to use PWS included in that version. Set a 'restore' point and I'll try. > >I certainly have no interest in speding upgrade money for a product that used to >be free and part of the OS. It's like most of M$ development tools (VStudio for >example). Who has got the money to keep buying them year after year. > >But we play in their camp. Microsoft technologies are here . . . they are being >used and I would like to learn them if for no other reason than being able to tell >others why they 'should not be using them.' > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 1:17 pm Posted by Jeff Monteith (1 messages posted) I too had this problem, trying to run my own webserver at home but constrained by the IIS limitations of 5 concurrent users. I decided to go to Apache. Really quite simple, the only real problem was changing all of our websites from FrontPage to Netobjects Fusion as Apache did not easily (for me) support FrontPage extensions. I run XP Pro on a DSL line. You mention that one must "tweak" XP to allow for more usage of bandwidth. I am finding that the pages are served incredibly slow under Apache - when compared to IIS. What can I do to improve the performance of Apache?? I don't doubt the product, I just doubt my ability to properly configure the software. the httpd.con file is relatively unchanged, bar the creation of virtual servers to hold five separate websites. For those of you considering making the change, JUMP from IIS to Apache today. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer on the tweaking of XP Professional as it pertains to Apache 2.0. Cheers - Monteith. On Monday, January 27, 2003 at 4:13 am, Brendan wrote: >I neither think that it is legal to add such features, nor is it probably recommended >as hacking your os to do something it was specifically designed NOT to do can lead >to probs... However, this gives you the oppertunity to try something with some real >meat! I'm speaking of apache, the open source web server... Apache is platform agnostic... >It doesn't care what it's run on as long as its binary compatable with the OS (Windows, >MacOS, Linux, etc...) So give that a try... You'll find it works quite well (after >you tweak xp home to provide more bandwidth, that is.. MS Limits the bandwith to >20% of potential.. there are tools built into Home that Let you tweak that without >touching the registry...) The final benefit of this is once you learn apache, You >Don't NEED TO RELEARN... Might be a steep Grade at first, but Once it works, it works >and you can migrate your page to any os which supports appache (win Flavors Included)... >So Good Luck, and Viva Open Source!!! > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 12:42 am Posted by Scott M. Stolz (2 messages posted) Windows XP Professional comes with IIS, Windows XP Home does now. Microsoft directs you to upgrade to Pro to get a web server. So far from what I've read, if you want to test out your ASP pages locally on Windows XP Home, you are out of luck. All the suggestions I've seen involve web servers that don't support ASP at all or without modifications or advice on how to convert to something else. I have a real production server that runs ASP. I just want to test my ASP pages locally on Windows XP Home without spending a ton of money to upgrade to XP Pro. Anyone have any ideas on how to solve that problem? On Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 5:10 pm, MAGnUm wrote: >WIN XP COMES WITH IIS (BETTER THAN PWS) ITS ON THE CD!!!! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 12:48 am Posted by Scott M. Stolz (2 messages posted) TYPO! The first line should read: "Windows XP Professional comes with IIS, Windows XP Home does not." On Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 12:42 am, Scott M. Stolz wrote: >Windows XP Professional comes with IIS, Windows XP Home does now. Microsoft directs >you to upgrade to Pro to get a web server. > >So far from what I've read, if you want to test out your ASP pages locally on Windows >XP Home, you are out of luck. All the suggestions I've seen involve web servers >that don't support ASP at all or without modifications or advice on how to convert >to something else. > >I have a real production server that runs ASP. I just want to test my ASP pages >locally on Windows XP Home without spending a ton of money to upgrade to XP Pro. > >Anyone have any ideas on how to solve that problem? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Wednesday, April 2, 2003 at 8:48 am Posted by Toni Banks (1 messages posted) This article on sitepoint(great resource for web developers has a suggestion - "If you are unable or unwilling to run your Web server under a Windows-based operating system, all is not lost. There are several commercial options for adding ASP support to servers such as Apache (ChiliSoft ASP, for one); however, such set-ups are far from ideal for learning ASP, since many components of Microsoft’s original ASP framework rely heavily on features of Windows, those components will be altered or missing entirely from platform-independent versions of ASP." Good Luck On Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 12:42 am, Scott M. Stolz wrote: >Windows XP Professional comes with IIS, Windows XP Home does now. Microsoft directs >you to upgrade to Pro to get a web server. > >So far from what I've read, if you want to test out your ASP pages locally on Windows >XP Home, you are out of luck. All the suggestions I've seen involve web servers >that don't support ASP at all or without modifications or advice on how to convert >to something else. > >I have a real production server that runs ASP. I just want to test my ASP pages >locally on Windows XP Home without spending a ton of money to upgrade to XP Pro. > >Anyone have any ideas on how to solve that problem? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Monday, April 7, 2003 at 10:25 am Posted by jeff wilkinson (7 messages posted) I'm considering upgrading from win98 to winXP and trying to decide between home and prof. I must have the ability to locally test ASP pages, preferably against an MS implementation. If I go with prof and use IIS, am I opening myself up to a major headache of having to maintain the damn thing? It seems that they have security patches out constantly for it and 100's of ways you can be hacked through it. Supposedly there is a small server that comes with the asp.net webmatrix stuff (http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/default.aspx?tabindex=4&tabid=46). Has anyone used that for ASP classic development? Does it work well? Can you set it up under WinXP-home? Is it relatively secure? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Wednesday, April 9, 2003 at 11:23 am Posted by jeff wilkinson (7 messages posted) FWIW, I found out that the Cassini webserver included with ASP.net webmatrix does NOT support classic ASP, but only ASP.Net. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Thursday, April 10, 2003 at 5:26 am Posted by Rob (1 messages posted) Brendan, Thanks for clarifying several points about apache and it's application on windows based OSs. I am just starting to learn about web development and want to set up a web sever running on XP HE. From the sounds of it apache is the right way to jump. Can you recommend any good references for someone like me who has good database, HTML developement skills but is a novice when it comes to managing a web service or developing dynamic web pages. Cheers Rob. On Monday, January 27, 2003 at 4:13 am, Brendan wrote: >I neither think that it is legal to add such features, nor is it probably recommended >as hacking your os to do something it was specifically designed NOT to do can lead >to probs... However, this gives you the oppertunity to try something with some real >meat! I'm speaking of apache, the open source web server... Apache is platform agnostic... >It doesn't care what it's run on as long as its binary compatable with the OS (Windows, >MacOS, Linux, etc...) So give that a try... You'll find it works quite well (after >you tweak xp home to provide more bandwidth, that is.. MS Limits the bandwith to >20% of potential.. there are tools built into Home that Let you tweak that without >touching the registry...) The final benefit of this is once you learn apache, You >Don't NEED TO RELEARN... Might be a steep Grade at first, but Once it works, it works >and you can migrate your page to any os which supports appache (win Flavors Included)... >So Good Luck, and Viva Open Source!!! > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Saturday, April 12, 2003 at 5:20 am Posted by mfbsd (1 messages posted) don't upgrade since winXP sucks so much. fck M$ not even giving a web server i hate microsoft. apache has problem running in windows xp too. winxp somehow disable apache but i don't know how they do it. and i use apache in freebsd without problem. try not to use windows is the only way to go On Monday, April 7, 2003 at 10:25 am, Jeff wrote: >I'm considering upgrading from win98 to winXP and trying to decide between home and >prof. I must have the ability to locally test ASP pages, preferably against an MS >implementation. > > If I go with prof and use IIS, am I opening myself up to a major headache of having >to maintain the damn thing? It seems that they have security patches out constantly >for it and 100's of ways you can be hacked through it. > > Supposedly there is a small server that comes with the asp.net webmatrix stuff >(http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/default.aspx?tabindex=4&tabid=46). > > Has anyone used that for ASP classic development? Does it work well? Can you >set it up under WinXP-home? Is it relatively secure? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Monday, April 28, 2003 at 2:03 pm Posted by helpful (1 messages posted) For those of you looking for a good apache, php, mysql development tool. Head over to http://firepages.com.au and download phpdevkit. It's a pre configured windows apache server with mysql and php. It's as simple as extract the zip to drive C and click run and hey-presto a fully operational web server to play on On Thursday, April 10, 2003 at 5:26 am, Rob wrote: > >Brendan, > >Thanks for clarifying several points about apache and it's application on windows >based OSs. I am just starting to learn about web development and want to set up a >web sever running on XP HE. From the sounds of it apache is the right way to jump. >Can you recommend any good references for someone like me who has good database, >HTML developement skills but is a novice when it comes to managing a web service >or developing dynamic web pages. > >Cheers >Rob. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Thursday, May 1, 2003 at 1:07 pm Posted by Danno (1 messages posted) I got the same thing -- the IIS option appears in the component list but can't be checked. Did you or anyone ever find a solution to this? Thanks! On Wednesday, February 26, 2003 at 5:39 am, Chris wrote: >That's interesting cos I have two PCs here, one pre-installed with XP Home and one >upgraded from ME. Neither accept this routine with or without Service Pack 1 loaded. > >Sure removing the "Hide" command from the Sysoc file reveals the optional component >but neither machoine allows it to be checked and therefore installed. > >Any bright ideas from here? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Friday, May 2, 2003 at 6:05 am Posted by Chris (2 messages posted) No-one has contacted me so I would suggest this is a non solution! I have tried all sorts to make it happen without success. Ended up downloading Appache server which installed and worked fine first time. Trouble is, I specifically wanted ASP functionality across home network. Apache doesn't do ASP. On Thursday, May 1, 2003 at 1:07 pm, Danno wrote: >I got the same thing -- the IIS option appears in the component list but can't be >checked. Did you or anyone ever find a solution to this? Thanks! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Saturday, May 3, 2003 at 8:04 am Posted by vatano (5 messages posted) I heard a way to install IIS on xp home edition caution: it is a unusual way to install it, there may be some problems. 1, preparing a 2000 professional installing CD 2, assume your CD-ROM is D: 3, open 'c:\windows\inf\sysoc.inf' , find [Components] and replace 'iis=iis.dll,OcEntry,iis.inf,hide,7' to 'iis=iis2.dll,OcEntry,iis2.inf,,7' then save, remember to backup. 4, insert windows 2000 professional CD, stop the autoruning, then run 'cmd', execute 'Expand d:\i386\iis.dl_ c:\windows\system32\setup\iis2.dll' & 'Expand d:\i386\iis.in_ c:\windows\inf\iis2.inf' 5, open the control panel, install windows assemble, select iis, install. 6, check if you install successfully. On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 11:55 am, Arthur Cunneen wrote: >Another - apparently not well known - difference between XP Home and XP Professional >is that the former does not come with a copy of Personal Web Server (PWS). It did >come with Windows 98 and I understand that it does come with Home Professional. >(Does anyone know if that is true?) > >I am teaching myself to build websites and I cannot afford to build or buy a work >bench, so PWS is important to me. > >Does anyone know if there is a structural difference between XP Home and XP Pro that >prohibits the use of the XP Pro verison of PWS with XP Home? > >Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the XP Pro version of PWS? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Saturday, May 3, 2003 at 9:12 am Posted by Arthur Cunneen (2 messages posted) I want to thank everyone who responded to this message. I have to confess that, fairly early on, I gave in a bought XP Pro. For the many who have a similar problem I strongly recommend that you this thread as their are many - most a lot cheaper - suggested alternatives. And thanks to Annoyances.org On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 11:55 am, Arthur Cunneen wrote: >Another - apparently not well known - difference between XP Home and XP Professional >is that the former does not come with a copy of Personal Web Server (PWS). It did >come with Windows 98 and I understand that it does come with Home Professional. >(Does anyone know if that is true?) > >I am teaching myself to build websites and I cannot afford to build or buy a work >bench, so PWS is important to me. > >Does anyone know if there is a structural difference between XP Home and XP Pro that >prohibits the use of the XP Pro verison of PWS with XP Home? > >Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the XP Pro version of PWS? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Sunday, May 4, 2003 at 2:51 pm Posted by kevin (3 messages posted) If you don't expose your machine to the internet then hackers can't get in. Make sure to set-up a hardware firewall and leave all ports closed. This allows you to develop without worries. Not doing development work, then stop the IIS services manually for comfort's sake. Also, always eep your Anti-Virus up to date to prevent exploits via e-mail. This should allow you to minimize the patching requirements. When you have your pages ready just publish to an outside host. Kevin On Monday, April 7, 2003 at 10:25 am, Jeff wrote: >I'm considering upgrading from win98 to winXP and trying to decide between home and >prof. I must have the ability to locally test ASP pages, preferably against an MS >implementation. > > If I go with prof and use IIS, am I opening myself up to a major headache of having >to maintain the damn thing? It seems that they have security patches out constantly >for it and 100's of ways you can be hacked through it. > > Supposedly there is a small server that comes with the asp.net webmatrix stuff >(http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/default.aspx?tabindex=4&tabid=46). > > Has anyone used that for ASP classic development? Does it work well? Can you >set it up under WinXP-home? Is it relatively secure? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Monday, May 5, 2003 at 2:48 pm Posted by Kiran (1 messages posted) Please do send me files or copy. Thanks Kiran On Saturday, November 30, 2002 at 4:27 am, Saeed Ghazagh wrote: >Hi, >i have a windows CD wich has PWS instalation program. >I installed it on windows XP home edition. >Contact me and i will send it to you if you want. >Regards:S@eed.Gh > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 11:27 pm Posted by jay block (1 messages posted) Hey, i'll give it to you if you pay shipping...(windows xp pro) On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 11:55 am, Arthur Cunneen wrote: >Another - apparently not well known - difference between XP Home and XP Professional >is that the former does not come with a copy of Personal Web Server (PWS). It did >come with Windows 98 and I understand that it does come with Home Professional. >(Does anyone know if that is true?) > >I am teaching myself to build websites and I cannot afford to build or buy a work >bench, so PWS is important to me. > >Does anyone know if there is a structural difference between XP Home and XP Pro that >prohibits the use of the XP Pro verison of PWS with XP Home? > >Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the XP Pro version of PWS? > hey, i'll send it to you if you pay shipping... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 11:30 am Posted by Kansul (1 messages posted) Hi Jay, Can I have the Win Xp Pro Cd's. I'll take care the shipping charges for sending back you too. Thanks Kansul On Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 11:27 pm, jay block wrote: > > >Hey, i'll give it to you if you pay shipping...(windows xp pro) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 2:38 pm Posted by Werner (1 messages posted) Why in the world would you want to do web-development on a Windows OS? Rather partition your laptop's HD and load a Linux distribution (minimally configured, to basically give you web development features). Also, migrate to PHP, since plain ol' ASP's days are counted. I recommend Linux, because it's FREE. Unix is just as good, but if you can get your hands on Unix, you should go for the latter. Trust me, I work for a Web-Development company, and we make millions of dollars each month, from developing stuff in a FREE and STABLE environment. You can easily configure your laptop to be dual-bootable, so that you still have Windows XP on it as well (but heaven only knows what you want to use Windows for, I just suppose you have a good reason, like being able to test your stuff in Internet Explorer?). Either way, that's totally the best advise available. Good Luck! Werner [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home / free BadBlue web server Friday, June 13, 2003 at 8:04 am Posted by DaveM (1 messages posted) Hey, just get the free BadBlue web server for XP home - http://badblue.com - it supports PHP, ASP, Perl and will let you serve up photos, music, etc. in a search-style interface. Free domain name support, too! On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 11:55 am, Arthur Cunneen wrote: >Another - apparently not well known - difference between XP Home and XP Professional >is that the former does not come with a copy of Personal Web Server (PWS). It did >come with Windows 98 and I understand that it does come with Home Professional. >(Does anyone know if that is true?) > >I am teaching myself to build websites and I cannot afford to build or buy a work >bench, so PWS is important to me. > >Does anyone know if there is a structural difference between XP Home and XP Pro that >prohibits the use of the XP Pro verison of PWS with XP Home? > >Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the XP Pro version of PWS? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Saturday, June 14, 2003 at 7:52 pm Posted by Neal (1 messages posted) Can I get a copy too? Neal On Saturday, November 30, 2002 at 4:27 am, Saeed Ghazagh wrote: >Hi, >i have a windows CD wich has PWS instalation program. >I installed it on windows XP home edition. >Contact me and i will send it to you if you want. >Regards:S@eed.Gh > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home / free BadBlue web server Monday, June 16, 2003 at 9:04 am Posted by D. Topic (1 messages posted) Hi, Dos this product deliver what was written in previous message?????? I have Windows XP H.E. and I would like to start ASP development. Did anybody tried BadBlue web server? Thanks, D. Topic On Friday, June 13, 2003 at 8:04 am, DaveM wrote: >Hey, just get the free BadBlue web server for XP home - http://badblue.com - it supports >PHP, ASP, Perl and will let you serve up photos, music, etc. in a search-style interface. > >Free domain name support, too! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home / free BadBlue web server Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 2:24 pm Posted by Louise (1 messages posted) According to BadBlue.com, you can install a free 3rd party product, Selisoft's 'ActiveHTML' to run alongside the BadBlue server, to view Active Server Pages. (http://www.selisoft.com/en/ahtml/index.html) To a non-techie like me, the instructions to install and run both these products seems very complicated. Can anyone confirm it works, and simplify the process for installing and running under Windows XP Home, for testing Active Server Pages on a stand-alone machine not connected to a network or the Internet? Thanks, Louise On Monday, June 16, 2003 at 9:04 am, D. Topic wrote: >Hi, >Dos this product deliver what was written in previous message?????? >I have Windows XP H.E. and I would like to start ASP development. >Did anybody tried BadBlue web server? > >Thanks, >D. Topic > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Monday, July 14, 2003 at 10:09 am Posted by John Balamuta (1 messages posted) WHERE DO YOU FIND THE PWS???? I have XP Pro, but I have NO IDEA where to go to find this PWS? HELP! (e-mail me if possible) On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 11:55 am, Arthur Cunneen wrote: >Another - apparently not well known - difference between XP Home and XP Professional >is that the former does not come with a copy of Personal Web Server (PWS). It did >come with Windows 98 and I understand that it does come with Home Professional. >(Does anyone know if that is true?) > >I am teaching myself to build websites and I cannot afford to build or buy a work >bench, so PWS is important to me. > >Does anyone know if there is a structural difference between XP Home and XP Pro that >prohibits the use of the XP Pro verison of PWS with XP Home? > >Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the XP Pro version of PWS? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home / active HTML for asp/ Abyss Server Thursday, July 24, 2003 at 5:43 am Posted by j0sh (1 messages posted) hi all, i tried the Active HTML, not using BadBlue but other server called "Abyss Web Server" that works in XP HE too, but this last is sharewr. The trick is that active html acts like a cgi interpreter and must be installed like one of em. So u have to put the path to the cgi interpreter associated with the extensions (.asp .asa) and make an alias to the aHTML folder installed into ur system, so when an asp page reach ur navigator, the interpreter takes the page. There're somethings not working with active html, like session variables, but the rest works quite well. Don't let M$ steal ur breath... best wishes, J0sh. On Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 2:24 pm, Louise wrote: >According to BadBlue.com, you can install a free 3rd party product, Selisoft's 'ActiveHTML' >to run alongside the BadBlue server, to view Active Server Pages. (http://www.selisoft.com/en/ahtml/index.html) > >To a non-techie like me, the instructions to install and run both these products >seems very complicated. Can anyone confirm it works, and simplify the process for >installing and running under Windows XP Home, for testing Active Server Pages on >a stand-alone machine not connected to a network or the Internet? > >Thanks, Louise > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Thursday, July 24, 2003 at 4:37 pm Posted by jim (1 messages posted) Sorry if this has been mentioned already, but I had the great misfortune today to get a new pc with xp and discovered that it doesn't have pws/iis. Anyway, I've been looking around and I have found something called http://www.newobjects.com Active Local Pages which is basically a testing ASP server that can be downloaded for free and is cheap to buy. Have only just installed it and tested it with a few examples, but it seems solid... Jim On Monday, July 14, 2003 at 10:09 am, John Balamuta wrote: >WHERE DO YOU FIND THE PWS???? I have XP Pro, but I have NO IDEA where to go to find >this PWS? HELP! >(e-mail me if possible) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Thursday, July 24, 2003 at 4:43 pm Posted by jim (2 messages posted) http://www.newobjects.com Active Local Pages which is basically a testing ASP server that can be downloaded for free and is cheap to buy. Have only just installed it and tested it with a few examples, but it seems solid... On Monday, July 14, 2003 at 10:09 am, John Balamuta wrote: >WHERE DO YOU FIND THE PWS???? I have XP Pro, but I have NO IDEA where to go to find >this PWS? HELP! >(e-mail me if possible) > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Tuesday, July 29, 2003 at 7:01 am Posted by Brian (1 messages posted) Start, Settings, Control Panel, Add or Remove programs, Add or Remove Windows components (on the left side of the window). Wait for XP to bring the list up, then look for Internet Information Services (IIS), which will install the PWS. If you click on details you can select what options you want- certificate services, etc.. If you just choose okay, you'll get a default installation. This, by the way, is for Windows XP Pro. On Thursday, July 24, 2003 at 4:43 pm, jim wrote: > >http://www.newobjects.com > Active Local Pages which is basically a testing ASP server that can be downloaded >for free and is cheap to buy. Have only just installed it and tested it with a few >examples, but it seems solid... > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Tuesday, July 29, 2003 at 7:11 am Posted by jim (2 messages posted) Yes, PWS/IIS is installable for XP Pro. I suggested ALP (newobjects.com) as an alternative to those who have XP Home and don't want to shell out for Pro. On Tuesday, July 29, 2003 at 7:01 am, Brian wrote: >Start, Settings, Control Panel, Add or Remove programs, Add or Remove Windows components >(on the left side of the window). Wait for XP to bring the list up, then look for >Internet Information Services (IIS), which will install the PWS. If you click on >details you can select what options you want- certificate services, etc.. If you >just choose okay, you'll get a default installation. This, by the way, is for Windows >XP Pro. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Thursday, August 7, 2003 at 8:10 pm Posted by Linda (1 messages posted) Hai Saeed, can you pls send me the cd or maybe files too. Thank you very much On Saturday, November 30, 2002 at 4:27 am, Saeed Ghazagh wrote: >Hi, >i have a windows CD wich has PWS instalation program. >I installed it on windows XP home edition. >Contact me and i will send it to you if you want. >Regards:S@eed.Gh > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Saturday, August 9, 2003 at 3:11 pm Posted by Matt (1 messages posted) Hi, please could you send me these files? Many thanks. On Saturday, November 30, 2002 at 4:27 am, Saeed Ghazagh wrote: >Hi, >i have a windows CD wich has PWS instalation program. >I installed it on windows XP home edition. >Contact me and i will send it to you if you want. >Regards:S@eed.Gh > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 8:45 pm Posted by J. Gills (1 messages posted) First - you are correct, XP Home does not come with, nor support PWS; nor does it come with or support IIS. Second - XP Pro doesn't come with nor support PWS either. XP Pro comes with and uses the full blown web server called Internet Information Services, IIS for short. Third - The difference between the two (Home & Pro) is the amount of bandwidth permitted by the Home version is too low to allow serving web pages. [by the way, there's no such thing as "Home Pro" it's one or the other] Lastly - Since there is no such thing as XP Pro version of PWS you can't get it anywhere. If you really want to develop web pages, ASP or other scripting types, on a serious level I suggest you get something that has the power to support what you are trying to do. Such as - NT WS 4.0 with the NT Option pack add-on, Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Professional. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 11:55 am, Arthur Cunneen wrote: >Another - apparently not well known - difference between XP Home and XP Professional >is that the former does not come with a copy of Personal Web Server (PWS). It did >come with Windows 98 and I understand that it does come with Home Professional. >(Does anyone know if that is true?) > >I am teaching myself to build websites and I cannot afford to build or buy a work >bench, so PWS is important to me. > >Does anyone know if there is a structural difference between XP Home and XP Pro that >prohibits the use of the XP Pro verison of PWS with XP Home? > >Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the XP Pro version of PWS? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Friday, August 22, 2003 at 9:10 am Posted by Brandon (1 messages posted) The sweet and short is: If you have existing ASP Pages , designed and running on IIS or PWS. There is no windows solution for XP Home Edition. all the solutions provided here (except the IIS hack for XP Home, a bad idea) will allow you to create new asp pages in a non microsoft IIS compatible format, ie they probably won't work on your hosting companies windows servers, your existing pages are lost. You cannot work on them. The only solution, and it's more expensive than upgrading to XP Pro is : Download Apache: I Love the pre-configured Indigoperl Server, and Sun-One Asp. Sun One is the only microsoft compatible Apache ASP Solution. But it certainly ain't cheap. It's worth it if you wanna desert microsoft for their low blow of removing PWs or IIS from XP HE which came standard on my new PC. Apache is free MySql is Free Php is Free Sun One ASP costs in the region of $499 The end result is a truly cross platform server, that runs PHP and ASP on windows HE. If you don't wanna change to Apache and Pay for Sun One ASP, you have no other choice but to upgrade to WIN XP PRO. Alternatively, Purchase SQL Server packages and download ASP.NET matrix web server . I am still trying one or two solutions, but am about to begrudgingly purchase XP PRO. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 3:01 pm Posted by allan (3 messages posted) I would be willing to pay for shipping. How much $$ reply to adragton@hotmail.com On Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 11:27 pm, jay block wrote: > > >Hey, i'll give it to you if you pay shipping...(windows xp pro) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Tuesday, September 30, 2003 at 6:54 am Posted by Alan (1 messages posted) NOTE: Microsoft FrontPage 2002 can use disk-based Web pages in Windows XP Home Edition as an alternative. The above note is taken from the MS webpage that provides the information that XP home does not support PWS. Does anyone have any experience of this. What are the limitations? Alan [Reply or follow-up to this message] XP Home and IIS Wednesday, October 1, 2003 at 1:08 am Posted by Grayson Peddie (1 messages posted) Does anyone who have W2k Pro/Server please send me the IIS.dl_ and IIS.in_? I need it to extract the forum software setup that requires IIS. Thanks. My e-mail address is GPAptiva@msn.com [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and IIS Thursday, October 9, 2003 at 10:40 pm Posted by Joe (1 messages posted) I need copies of IIS.dl_ and IIS.in_ as well. I can not find them for download anywhere (for obvious reasons). If anyone has these files, could you PLEASE email them to me. Thanks in advance. In the mean time, I'll just sit here and smile at my Win XP Home Edition. Joe joe@martin-media.net [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and IIS Sunday, November 2, 2003 at 4:19 pm Posted by John Doe (7 messages posted) I'd really appreciate if someone could send me the two files too. I've got Apache, but I'd like to try ASP and a MS server. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Wednesday, November 19, 2003 at 10:43 am Posted by Chi (1 messages posted) But can you use Apache with windows XP Home Edition? If so, is there any reason why XP Pro would be better? Or are they equivalent in this regard when you use Apache? Wanna save money but don't wanna need important features later. Thanks in advance. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server - for dreamweaver Tuesday, November 25, 2003 at 6:59 am Posted by Jamie (1 messages posted) Hi, Has anyone tried the Active Local Pages program from newobjects mentioned below? I have XP Home and I am trying to use Dreamweaver MX to create some .ASP pages to access a database I have for a local football competition, however I am having difficulty getting a testing server to display .ASP pages. I have tried Apache::ASP to no avail so i'm hoping this is simpler! Cheers, jamie On Thursday, July 24, 2003 at 4:43 pm, jim wrote: > >http://www.newobjects.com > Active Local Pages which is basically a testing ASP server that can be downloaded >for free and is cheap to buy. Have only just installed it and tested it with a few >examples, but it seems solid... > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and IIS Friday, November 28, 2003 at 7:24 am Posted by john meridan (1 messages posted) why don't you just do 1 On Sunday, November 2, 2003 at 4:19 pm, Richard Carn wrote: >I'd really appreciate if someone could send me the two files too. I've got Apache, >but I'd like to try ASP and a MS server. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and IIS Saturday, November 29, 2003 at 10:29 am Posted by anonymous (43 messages posted) Why don't I just do one of what? Servers or files? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Monday, December 29, 2003 at 8:32 pm Posted by Stevo (1 messages posted) I had almost given up trying but thanks to your message I think it has worked (I am about to try once I log off). I actually have pro as well as home but thanks to the good folks at Sony when I do a clean install I cannot then install my bundled software that came with the laptop! When I install pro over the top of home a virtual page file error occurs (which results in my laptop continually rebooting and it cannot start in any mode) and has to be rebuilt. Therefore I was stuck with trying this fix. For other novices: 1. You cannot just copy the dll and inf files as this does not work (even though you can see the IIS components you cannot click them on!) 2. You may not be able to expand the two files from disk - therefore copy them to your PC (I ended up putting them in the root of c:\ as DOS does not like spaces in directory names Wish me luck S On Saturday, May 3, 2003 at 8:04 am, Vatano wrote: >I heard a way to install IIS on xp home edition >caution: it is a unusual way to install it, there may be some problems. >1, preparing a 2000 professional installing CD >2, assume your CD-ROM is D: >3, open 'c:\windows\inf\sysoc.inf' , find [Components] and replace 'iis=iis.dll,OcEntry,iis.inf,hide,7' > to 'iis=iis2.dll,OcEntry,iis2.inf,,7' then save, remember to backup. >4, insert windows 2000 professional CD, stop the autoruning, then run 'cmd', execute >'Expand d:\i386\iis.dl_ c:\windows\system32\setup\iis2.dll' & 'Expand d:\i386\iis.in_ >c:\windows\inf\iis2.inf' >5, open the control panel, install windows assemble, select iis, install. >6, check if you install successfully. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Thursday, January 1, 2004 at 9:33 am Posted by Kathy (2 messages posted) I just searched for the same issue. I came up with this: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/03/02/how_to_set_up_a_personal_web_server Very cool! On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 11:55 am, Arthur Cunneen wrote: >Another - apparently not well known - difference between XP Home and XP Professional >is that the former does not come with a copy of Personal Web Server (PWS). It did >come with Windows 98 and I understand that it does come with Home Professional. >(Does anyone know if that is true?) > >I am teaching myself to build websites and I cannot afford to build or buy a work >bench, so PWS is important to me. > >Does anyone know if there is a structural difference between XP Home and XP Pro that >prohibits the use of the XP Pro verison of PWS with XP Home? > >Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the XP Pro version of PWS? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Saturday, January 3, 2004 at 2:27 am Posted by alex (4 messages posted) hello, i have this same problem and it is very frustrating! i have a windows 98 CD with PWS, i tried to run setup.exe and it told me that it needed windows 95, so i changed the compatibilty under properties, ran it again and it told me i need winsock2. so i downloaded it from microsoft's site and now i get the same error message. it is logged as "Attempted to upgrade to Microsoft TCP 2.0, but Microsoft TCP 1.1 is not installed" i tried searching but found nothing? this has personally made me v. angry at microsoft! any new sites out there? thanks a lot, alex On Thursday, January 1, 2004 at 9:33 am, Kathy wrote: >I just searched for the same issue. I came up with this: >http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/03/02/how_to_set_up_a_personal_web_server >Very cool! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Saturday, January 3, 2004 at 3:52 am Posted by Kathy (2 messages posted) Hi Alex: Use the instructions found on this site and you will be able to install iis rather than PWS. But as the instructions show you must use either WIN2000 or XP CDs once you have completed the first few steps. I found the following on another discussion group: How to set up a personal web server » How to enable personal web sharing in Windows XP Home Edition. [via 4 Guys From Rolla ASP FAQ, via Poochkiss, 2/23/2002] Microsoft has discontinued the Personal Web Sharing product that came with Windows 95/98/ME, and IIS is only included in the Professional Edition. Furthermore, they appear to have gone to some length to keep you from installing it manually. Here’s what you have to do to set up a web server on Windows XP Home Edition: open C:\WINDOWS\INF\SYSOC.INF in Notepad or another text editor locate a section called [Components] find a line like this: iis=iis.dll,OcEntry,iis.inf,hide,7 change it to this: iis=iis2.dll,OcEntry,iis2.inf,,7 Copy IIS.DL_ and IIS.IN_ from the Windows 2000 Advanced Server CD (according to this thread on devdex, Windows 2000 Professional CD also works, but the Professional Edition of XP does not) From a command prompt, EXPAND IIS.DL_ IIS2.DLL Copy IIS2.DLL to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SETUP From a command prompt, EXPAND IIS.IN_ IIS2.INF Copy IIS2.INF to C:\WINDOWS\INF Now you can start installing it. Go to Start menu, Settings, Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Add New Programs, select IIS. When prompted for files, alternately insert your XP Home Edition CD or the Advanced Server CD. You will have to manually search for each file on each CD; it doesn’t know the correct path for any of them. Some files (like INFOCTRS.DLL) are not on either CD, but they are stored in compressed form in C:\WINDOWS\I386. Select the compressed file (like INFOCTRS.DL_) and the installer will uncompress it and continue. Reboot You will still have to go to IIS Administration (Start menu, Settings, Control Panel, Administrative Programs, IIS) and set up virtual directories (right-click on Default Site and select "New virtual directory", then step through all the tabs to configure it). Also (and I’m not clear on this step), you’ll need to go to the Directory Security tab, click Edit, and browse for the user setup on your computer. If you have multiple users on the machine, you would presumably have to set up separate virtual directories for each of them and set privileges manually in order to allow each user to administer their own virtual site. If anyone has actually succeeded in doing this, please let me know." On Saturday, January 3, 2004 at 2:27 am, alex wrote: >hello, i have this same problem and it is very frustrating! i have a windows 98 CD >with PWS, i tried to run setup.exe and it told me that it needed windows 95, so i >changed the compatibilty under properties, ran it again and it told me i need winsock2. >so i downloaded it from microsoft's site and now i get the same error message. it >is logged as "Attempted to upgrade to Microsoft TCP 2.0, but Microsoft TCP 1.1 is >not installed" i tried searching but found nothing? this has personally made me v. >angry at microsoft! any new sites out there? thanks a lot, alex > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Sunday, January 4, 2004 at 4:59 am Posted by alex (4 messages posted) hello all. i solved the problem of testing ASP scripts locally on windows xp home! i'd like to thank this site mostly for inspiration. he goes... i have windows xp home. i downloaded the abyss web server from http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/download.php then i downloaded AHTML from http://www.selisoft.com/en/ahtml/index.html. then i followed the instructions at http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/asp.html and wallah... i had offline ASP testing! i hope i have concluded this forum and i'd love to hear how you all went. thanks! =) On Saturday, January 3, 2004 at 3:52 am, Kathy wrote: >Hi Alex: Use the instructions found on this site and you will be able to install >iis rather than PWS. But as the instructions show you must use either WIN2000 or >XP CDs once you have completed the first few steps. I found the following on another >discussion group: How to set up a personal web server » >How to enable personal web sharing in Windows XP Home Edition. [via 4 Guys From Rolla >ASP FAQ, via Poochkiss, 2/23/2002] Microsoft has discontinued the Personal Web Sharing >product that came with Windows 95/98/ME, and IIS is only included in the Professional >Edition. Furthermore, they appear to have gone to some length to keep you from installing >it manually. > >Here’s what you have to do to set up a web server on Windows XP Home Edition: > >open C:\WINDOWS\INF\SYSOC.INF in Notepad or another text editor >locate a section called [Components] >find a line like this: iis=iis.dll,OcEntry,iis.inf,hide,7 >change it to this: iis=iis2.dll,OcEntry,iis2.inf,,7 >Copy IIS.DL_ and IIS.IN_ from the Windows 2000 Advanced Server CD (according to this >thread on devdex, Windows 2000 Professional CD also works, but the Professional Edition >of XP does not) >From a command prompt, EXPAND IIS.DL_ IIS2.DLL >Copy IIS2.DLL to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SETUP >From a command prompt, EXPAND IIS.IN_ IIS2.INF >Copy IIS2.INF to C:\WINDOWS\INF >Now you can start installing it. Go to Start menu, Settings, Control Panel, Add/Remove >Programs, Add New Programs, select IIS. >When prompted for files, alternately insert your XP Home Edition CD or the Advanced >Server CD. You will have to manually search for each file on each CD; it doesn’t >know the correct path for any of them. Some files (like INFOCTRS.DLL) are not on >either CD, but they are stored in compressed form in C:\WINDOWS\I386. Select the >compressed file (like INFOCTRS.DL_) and the installer will uncompress it and continue. >Reboot >You will still have to go to IIS Administration (Start menu, Settings, Control Panel, >Administrative Programs, IIS) and set up virtual directories (right-click on Default >Site and select "New virtual directory", then step through all the tabs to configure >it). Also (and I’m not clear on this step), you’ll need to go to the Directory Security >tab, click Edit, and browse for the user setup on your computer. If you have multiple >users on the machine, you would presumably have to set up separate virtual directories >for each of them and set privileges manually in order to allow each user to administer >their own virtual site. If anyone has actually succeeded in doing this, please let >me know." > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Friday, January 9, 2004 at 12:35 pm Posted by HRD53 (1 messages posted) For the past week, I've been trying to find a way to test ASP scripts locally on my xp home edition. Alex, I used the method you described here and it worked perfectly. Thank you mucho mucho!!!! On Sunday, January 4, 2004 at 4:59 am, alex wrote: >hello all. i solved the problem of testing ASP scripts locally on windows xp home! >i'd like to thank this site > mostly for inspiration. he goes... > >i have windows xp home. i downloaded the abyss web server from http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/download.php >then i downloaded AHTML from http://www.selisoft.com/en/ahtml/index.html. then i >followed the instructions at >http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/asp.html and wallah... i had offline ASP testing! >i hope i have concluded this forum >and i'd love to hear how you all went. thanks! =) > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Monday, January 12, 2004 at 12:29 am Posted by Graham Dyer (1 messages posted) Hi all I'm an asp newbie so I hope you forgive me if I can't see the wood for the trees. I have followed Alex's instructions to the letter however when I try to open the ASP page that I want I get the following message: "seliSoft_AHTML- Error '800a01b0' File name or class name not found during Automation operation default.asp, line 1423 " 1) the default.asp doesn't have 1423 lines! 2) I can open/test asp other asp pages but not the ones I want to, no matter where I put the folder Any help would be appreciated? Thanks Graham [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Thursday, February 5, 2004 at 6:12 pm Posted by Andrew Cassidy (1 messages posted) I'm considering doing the same thing (buying the XP Pro upgrade for the existing XP Home installation on my laptop), but I've already installed quite a few things. Did you have any problems or issues upgrading from Home to Pro? I want to make sure that once I do the upgrade, everything else works fine. Thanks, AJC On Saturday, May 3, 2003 at 9:12 am, Arthur J. Cunneen wrote: >I want to thank everyone who responded to this message. I have to confess that, >fairly early on, I gave in a bought XP Pro. For the many who have a similar problem >I strongly recommend that you this thread as their are many - most a lot cheaper >- suggested alternatives. > >And thanks to Annoyances.org > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Thursday, April 8, 2004 at 9:09 am Posted by jmink (2 messages posted) The thread disucussion is IIS on WINXP HOME.. no kidding its on Pro On Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 5:04 pm, MAGnUm wrote: >WIN XP PRO comes with IIS if you people want to use IIS all you need to do is install >its on the cd. also apache is great go to >http://www.firepages.com.au/ > >its an easy to use apache web server for php, but for you asp people (WHY) iis is >there i promise. if you got issues call microsoft they will tell you how to install. >and yes iis does the same thing as pws. just better! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Friday, April 9, 2004 at 1:55 pm Posted by orlando (1 messages posted) have you active-html free version, please? On Sunday, January 4, 2004 at 4:59 am, alex wrote: >hello all. i solved the problem of testing ASP scripts locally on windows xp home! >i'd like to thank this site > mostly for inspiration. he goes... > >i have windows xp home. i downloaded the abyss web server from http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/download.php >then i downloaded AHTML from http://www.selisoft.com/en/ahtml/index.html. then i >followed the instructions at >http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/asp.html and wallah... i had offline ASP testing! >i hope i have concluded this forum >and i'd love to hear how you all went. thanks! =) > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Saturday, April 10, 2004 at 10:55 am Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (130 messages posted) INFO: Personal Web Server Is Not Included with Windows XP Home Edition [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Monday, April 12, 2004 at 12:37 am Posted by Nick (2 messages posted) Read this, I got it from Microsoft's website: INFO: Personal Web Server Is Not Included with Windows XP Home Edition Applies To This article was previously published under Q304197 SUMMARY Windows XP Home Edition does not include or support any versions (1.0, 2.0, 4.0) of Microsoft Personal Web Server (PWS). Users that need Web server functionality in a desktop operating system should use Windows XP Professional. MORE INFORMATION Windows XP Professional is designed for business users and contains Internet Information Services (IIS) version 5.1. IIS 5.1 includes Web and FTP server support, as well as support for Microsoft FrontPage transactions, Active Server Pages, and database connections. Available as an optional component, IIS 5.1 is installed automatically if you upgrade from versions of Windows with PWS installed. PWS 4.0 is included with the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack and was designed for Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 or later. PWS is not supported and cannot be installed on any version of Windows XP. NOTE: Microsoft FrontPage 2002 can use disk-based Web pages in Windows XP Home Edition as an alternative. The information in this article applies to: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Last Reviewed: 10/30/2003 (1.1) Keywords: kbenv kbinfo KB304197 I THINK THIS IS TERRIBLE, I AM NOW DOWNGRADING TO WINDOWS 98 JUST TO SUPPORT PWS!!! On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 11:55 am, Arthur Cunneen wrote: >Another - apparently not well known - difference between XP Home and XP Professional >is that the former does not come with a copy of Personal Web Server (PWS). It did >come with Windows 98 and I understand that it does come with Home Professional. >(Does anyone know if that is true?) > >I am teaching myself to build websites and I cannot afford to build or buy a work >bench, so PWS is important to me. > >Does anyone know if there is a structural difference between XP Home and XP Pro that >prohibits the use of the XP Pro verison of PWS with XP Home? > >Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the XP Pro version of PWS? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Monday, April 12, 2004 at 4:46 am Posted by sixtoesofdean (1 messages posted) Hello everyone; I've just found myself in the same situation as every other contributor on this forum. I'm just starting out in building my own websites and though armed with a few books I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. However, I'd like to add my tuppeny's worth: The hack thats been described on this website in numerous places; does it actually work? I've tried it and the install process bombs about 75% the way through. Bearing in mind that this discussion has been going for such a long time, I'm assuming that wat may have worked a couple of years ago, is no longer effective. Also I'm wondering if it could be do with something peculiar to my laptop (compaq presario 2100), or maybe the win2000 professional CD I'm using is meant for Dell, and only Dell PC's (I doubt this though), or maybe because its an amd machine - or ... any number of half sensible reasons. I suspect none of these is the case and the real reason is simply because microsoft don't want to allow it.... Anyhow, I'm in the midst of using selisoft / abyss alternative though I'm not sure if its going to give me what I want... On Friday, April 9, 2004 at 1:55 pm, orlando wrote: >have you active-html free version, please? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Sunday, May 16, 2004 at 12:24 am Posted by Floyd (1 messages posted) Hey, You don't have to stick to one server. There are lots of servers out there for any version of windows that works as good and even better. I use the windows version of apache. But I am an advanced webmaster. For simple home use and developement. I use fireserv. It has apache, mysql and php all preconfigured. Check out moochers.com, freewarefiles.com, and download.com. You can find your server. Also do a search on a search engine for freeware are sharware. Most freeware websites have both. Good luck. On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 11:55 am, Arthur Cunneen wrote: >Another - apparently not well known - difference between XP Home and XP Professional >is that the former does not come with a copy of Personal Web Server (PWS). It did >come with Windows 98 and I understand that it does come with Home Professional. >(Does anyone know if that is true?) > >I am teaching myself to build websites and I cannot afford to build or buy a work >bench, so PWS is important to me. > >Does anyone know if there is a structural difference between XP Home and XP Pro that >prohibits the use of the XP Pro verison of PWS with XP Home? > >Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the XP Pro version of PWS? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Sunday, July 18, 2004 at 12:45 pm Posted by Casina (2 messages posted) Worked like a Charm for me! Thank You so much for that posting!!!!!!! On Sunday, January 4, 2004 at 4:59 am, alex wrote: >hello all. i solved the problem of testing ASP scripts locally on windows xp home! >i'd like to thank this site > mostly for inspiration. he goes... > >i have windows xp home. i downloaded the abyss web server from http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/download.php >then i downloaded AHTML from http://www.selisoft.com/en/ahtml/index.html. then i >followed the instructions at >http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/asp.html and wallah... i had offline ASP testing! >i hope i have concluded this forum >and i'd love to hear how you all went. thanks! =) > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] you can download it off of their website Tuesday, July 27, 2004 at 4:41 pm Posted by floyd (1 messages posted) you can download it from microsoft.com, just do a search for it. On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 11:55 am, Arthur Cunneen wrote: >Another - apparently not well known - difference between XP Home and XP Professional >is that the former does not come with a copy of Personal Web Server (PWS). It did >come with Windows 98 and I understand that it does come with Home Professional. >(Does anyone know if that is true?) > >I am teaching myself to build websites and I cannot afford to build or buy a work >bench, so PWS is important to me. > >Does anyone know if there is a structural difference between XP Home and XP Pro that >prohibits the use of the XP Pro verison of PWS with XP Home? > >Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the XP Pro version of PWS? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Sunday, August 1, 2004 at 7:31 pm Posted by Marcelo Ferreira (1 messages posted) I am trying this. Maybe helpful : This is aimed to be helpful to those people who have Windows XP Home and want to work on Active Server Pages (ASP). Unfortunately Win XP Home does not have the option of installing IIS or PWS. Unlike Win ME where Microsoft mentioned that PWS can installed on a testing basis(kb:266456), they have not left any such door ajar for XP Home. So to use IIS you have to upgrade to XP Pro. However, if you just want to use ASP but do not mind what server you are using, read on! I bought an IBM ThinkPad G40 with XP Home and many of projects involve database-driven ASP sites. After a lot of searching on the internet, I came across a Tek-Tips thread(http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?SQID=175058&SPID=333&page=1) where one suggestion was to use ChiliSoft from SUN. I decided to take that route. I went to the Chilisoft(http://www.chilisoft.com) website and found that they are offering a trial version of the Sun ONE Active Server Pages 4.0.1(http://wwws.sun.com/software/download/products/3f4e6fe6.html) BUT the following was also mentioned on the site: "When used with the Sun ONE Web Server, Sun ONE Active Server Pages can be installed free-of-charge for production use (no license key is required)." So I decided to install Sun ONE Web Server(http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/web_srvr/home_web_srvr.html) also. This server also will support PHP by adding some modules though I haven't looked at it closely. This required the :"JDK release: 1.4.1_03 minimum" too. but hey! no problem since all are easily available. This worked for me like a charm and ASP nows works on XP Home like it does on IIS or PWS!! Regards Satish Kumar [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Friday, August 13, 2004 at 4:14 am Posted by Michelle Ferons (1 messages posted) Hello, I followed the instructions on the Internet about how to add IIS on a computer with the XP Home OS. I can now see the component "Application Server", but I am unable to click on any subcomponents to add IIS from disk. I noticed you had the same problem. Were you able to get your Home edition to work? Thanks in advance for your time, Michelle On Monday, December 29, 2003 at 8:32 pm, Stevo wrote: >I had almost given up trying but thanks to your message I think it has worked (I >am about to try once I log off). > >I actually have pro as well as home but thanks to the good folks at Sony when I do >a clean install I cannot then install my bundled software that came with the laptop! > >When I install pro over the top of home a virtual page file error occurs (which results >in my laptop continually rebooting and it cannot start in any mode) and has to be >rebuilt. > >Therefore I was stuck with trying this fix. > >For other novices: >1. You cannot just copy the dll and inf files as this does not work (even though >you can see the IIS components you cannot click them on!) > >2. You may not be able to expand the two files from disk - therefore copy them to >your PC (I ended up putting them in the root of c:\ as DOS does not like spaces in >directory names > >Wish me luck > >S > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Monday, September 13, 2004 at 10:42 am Posted by Thomas (1 messages posted) Go to: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 11:55 am, Arthur Cunneen wrote: >Another - apparently not well known - difference between XP Home and XP Professional >is that the former does not come with a copy of Personal Web Server (PWS). It did >come with Windows 98 and I understand that it does come with Home Professional. >(Does anyone know if that is true?) > >I am teaching myself to build websites and I cannot afford to build or buy a work >bench, so PWS is important to me. > >Does anyone know if there is a structural difference between XP Home and XP Pro that >prohibits the use of the XP Pro verison of PWS with XP Home? > >Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the XP Pro version of PWS? > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Thursday, September 30, 2004 at 6:49 am Posted by alex (1 messages posted) hey i'm happy to be of help. i feel like i'm finally giving back, after getting so many answers of forums. that selisoft program was a trial, but by the time it ran out i had upgraded to pro anyway and use iis. i've also upgraded to php, and spent many weeks converting a huge site from asp to php. my advice is if you are to learn asp: dont write huge sites with it unless your are confident you have a windows platform to host on. otherwise use php for the freedom. thanks! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Thursday, September 30, 2004 at 3:07 pm Posted by roni (2 messages posted) Thank you! This Sun/Chilisoft/J2EE solution worked great. I am a beginner and your instructions were very precise. I could not force myself to buy XP Pro because I could not justify spending the money just to test ASP. I use Dreamweaver and want to be able to test some exisitng pages. My last computer had Pro but I bought this one without. Also I am happy with XP Home and have heard that Pro installations are not always successful the first time on all configurations. Just didn't need the headache of fixing something I already had in the first place. Thanks a bunch! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Tuesday, October 5, 2004 at 8:51 am Posted by Casina (2 messages posted) Yes....php is something I need to try myself... thank you for your help... again, thank you On Thursday, September 30, 2004 at 6:49 am, alex wrote: >hey i'm happy to be of help. > >i feel like i'm finally giving back, after getting so many answers of forums. > >that selisoft program was a trial, but by the time it ran out i had upgraded to pro >anyway and use iis. > >i've also upgraded to php, and spent many weeks converting a huge site from asp to >php. > >my advice is if you are to learn asp: dont write huge sites with it unless your are >confident you have a windows platform to host on. otherwise use php for the freedom. > >thanks! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Thursday, December 9, 2004 at 12:00 pm Posted by kalanga (1 messages posted) Why don't you use ASP.NET Web Matrix ??? It works on XP home and includes a small web server... www.asp.net: http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/default.aspx?tabIndex=4&tabId=46 On Tuesday, October 5, 2004 at 8:51 am, Casina wrote: >Yes....php is something I need to try myself... >thank you for your help... >again, thank you > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Thursday, December 16, 2004 at 9:41 pm Posted by Zac (72 messages posted) PWS is only for non NT based operating systems. But IIS (Internet Information Serverices) comes with XP Pro. -Zac- [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Monday, December 20, 2004 at 10:37 am Posted by raj (1 messages posted) www.yahoo.com [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server (HERE'S THE FIX -- THIS REALLY WORKS!) Friday, February 11, 2005 at 4:43 pm Posted by Bill Monti (1 messages posted) Thank you for posting this!! On Sunday, January 4, 2004 at 4:59 am, alex wrote: >hello all. i solved the problem of testing ASP scripts locally on windows xp home! >i'd like to thank this site > mostly for inspiration. he goes... > >i have windows xp home. i downloaded the abyss web server from http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/download.php >then i downloaded AHTML from http://www.selisoft.com/en/ahtml/index.html. then i >followed the instructions at >http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/asp.html and wallah... i had offline ASP testing! >i hope i have concluded this forum >and i'd love to hear how you all went. thanks! =) > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and IIS Friday, February 18, 2005 at 9:32 pm Posted by griffyboy0 (1 messages posted) Could someone throw me the files? I'm at griffyboy0@yahoo.com. Thanks! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Wednesday, March 9, 2005 at 8:11 am Posted by Jasmine (1 messages posted) This is the work around I used. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general/msg/97df7903d9b477d8 On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 11:55 am, Arthur Cunneen wrote: >Another - apparently not well known - difference between XP Home and XP Professional >is that the former does not come with a copy of Personal Web Server (PWS). It did >come with Windows 98 and I understand that it does come with Home Professional. >(Does anyone know if that is true?) > >I am teaching myself to build websites and I cannot afford to build or buy a work >bench, so PWS is important to me. > >Does anyone know if there is a structural difference between XP Home and XP Pro that >prohibits the use of the XP Pro verison of PWS with XP Home? > >Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the XP Pro version of PWS? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Can I Use PWS / IIS with XP? Friday, April 15, 2005 at 9:27 pm Posted by Vivek Sawant (1 messages posted) Dear All, Can I use PWS / IIS4 on XP so that i can start web development. My new PC does not have Win 98, it is having XP pro, so now can anybody help me in knowing whether it is possible to use PWS on XP? Vivek [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 7:15 am Posted by Eddie (1 messages posted) Solution works a treat. The People 1 Bill Gates 0 . Like other people I'm disgusted that MS have been so mean in excluding XP Home users from features that were previously standard. I'd been using PWS for years and just assumed it would be included. What they've gained by such pettiness I don't know. Thanks very much for sharing this with us. On Sunday, January 4, 2004 at 4:59 am, alex wrote: >hello all. i solved the problem of testing ASP scripts locally on windows xp home! >i'd like to thank this site > mostly for inspiration. he goes... > >i have windows xp home. i downloaded the abyss web server from http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/download.php >then i downloaded AHTML from http://www.selisoft.com/en/ahtml/index.html. then i >followed the instructions at >http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/asp.html and wallah... i had offline ASP testing! >i hope i have concluded this forum >and i'd love to hear how you all went. thanks! =) > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Saturday, May 14, 2005 at 6:26 am Posted by Nha (1 messages posted) Hi I love a copy of your installation for Windows XP HE Thanks Nha On Monday, May 5, 2003 at 2:48 pm, Kiran wrote: >Please do send me files or copy. > >Thanks >Kiran > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Saturday, July 23, 2005 at 12:33 pm Posted by Thomas (1 messages posted) I found a way to do it on xp home just go here and read and mabe it will help you http://www.mastermindz.org/modules.php?name=web-server-setup On Thursday, July 25, 2002 at 11:55 am, Arthur Cunneen wrote: >Another - apparently not well known - difference between XP Home and XP Professional >is that the former does not come with a copy of Personal Web Server (PWS). It did >come with Windows 98 and I understand that it does come with Home Professional. >(Does anyone know if that is true?) > >I am teaching myself to build websites and I cannot afford to build or buy a work >bench, so PWS is important to me. > >Does anyone know if there is a structural difference between XP Home and XP Pro that >prohibits the use of the XP Pro verison of PWS with XP Home? > >Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the XP Pro version of PWS? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Friday, December 9, 2005 at 10:41 am Posted by George (25 messages posted) If you are trying to get iss.dll of a Windows 2000 CD, why not just install Windows 2000 on your PC. It's a little tricky to get both XP Home and Windows 2000 on the same c: drive. But it's possible. From there you can do asp.net if you install PWS from 2000 pro If you have been keeping up on your hot fixes and XP service packs 1 or 2, you should have .NET framework 1.1 on XP home. The C# and VB compilers are included for Windows programing. You can pretty well do everything .NET except asp.net and Web services. The same is true for Windows 2000 at work if you installed the 1.1 framework, but you you don't have access to the CD's or installation directory or a IIS server. Don't forget about ASP.net hosting sites. There are lots of them. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Saturday, December 17, 2005 at 1:28 pm Posted by aOlsen (2 messages posted) Thanks for the tip. I would like to ask you (all) this: Does the Apache download for win32 also work on a 64-bit machine (running Windows XP Home)? On Wednesday, August 7, 2002 at 3:38 pm, Dub Dublin wrote: >PWS was pretty much a joke anyway. If you're looking to learn how to build a real >website, go ahead and use what the real professionals use: Apache. It's the most >popular web server on the planet, and because of the horrendous (and darn near unfixable) >security flaws in Microsoft's IIS, Apache is becoming far more common even in Windows >shops. You can download the Win32 version here: http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/ > >It runs beautifully on Windows, and of course, Solaris, the BSDs, and Linux. BSD >and Apache is a very serious, but very inexpensive server platform, used by many >large commercial sites. Oh, and it's free, so it should fit any budget... :-) > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Sunday, January 1, 2006 at 9:09 pm Posted by George (25 messages posted) You can install Oracle's Apache server. It'll work on any NT based OS including XP home. It's a free download for OTN members. You can download the 10G companion CD. You don't have to install the 10G database. If you are more interested in getting J2EE up and running, you can install any Java based HTTP server eg. Oracle's OC4J, Sun's Java Web server or Orion. Just as a note, these will work on any Windows or Non-windows OS (Linux ect.) As long as you run Java 1.2 or higher and you have permissions to assign a port. I ran it on Unix (AIX) at work on a low level userid and it worked [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Tuesday, January 24, 2006 at 4:13 am Posted by Peter (1 messages posted) Hi There! I'm in dire need of the IIS.DL_ & IIS.IN_ files from win2000 advanced server. I don't have access to a win2000 cd. If any of you have win2000 cd and want to help, kindly get them for me from the win2000 cd at c:\windows\i386 . Thanks Peter On Sunday, January 1, 2006 at 9:09 pm, George wrote: >You can install Oracle's Apache server. It'll work on any NT based OS including XP >home. It's a free download for OTN members. You can download the 10G companion CD. > You don't have to install the 10G database. If you are more interested in getting >J2EE up and running, you can install any Java based HTTP server eg. Oracle's OC4J, >Sun's Java Web server or Orion. Just as a note, these will work on any Windows or >Non-windows OS (Linux ect.) As long as you run Java 1.2 or higher and you have permissions >to assign a port. I ran it on Unix (AIX) at work on a low level userid and it worked > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and IIS Wednesday, April 12, 2006 at 1:33 pm Posted by juan (1 messages posted) Did you get the files. I need them now for me. On Thursday, October 9, 2003 at 10:40 pm, Joe wrote: > >I need copies of IIS.dl_ and IIS.in_ as well. I can not find them for download anywhere >(for obvious reasons). If anyone has these files, could you PLEASE email them to >me. Thanks in advance. In the mean time, I'll just sit here and smile at my Win XP >Home Edition. >Joe >joe@martin-media.net [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and IIS Wednesday, April 12, 2006 at 2:59 pm Posted by roni (2 messages posted) I don't know if any of you will be able to use this, but as a college student many schools participate in a program to get free micorsoft products, SQL Server and Win XP Pro just to name a few. It is legal and here is the link, if anyone can qualify: http://msdn.microsoft.com/academic/ That's where I got mine and IIS works great Good Luck On Wednesday, April 12, 2006 at 1:33 pm, juan wrote: >Did you get the files. I need them now for me. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server (HERE'S THE FIX -- THIS REALLY WORKS!) Friday, June 30, 2006 at 9:13 pm Posted by Shad (1 messages posted) Hello. Regarding your download of the SeliSoft AHtml; do you know where I can find a freeware version of the program? Thnx! On Friday, February 11, 2005 at 4:43 pm, Bill Monti wrote: >Thank you for posting this!! > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Saturday, January 27, 2007 at 4:17 pm Posted by allan0201 (3 messages posted) I tried this, but during the install, windows wouldn't install all of the files even though I browsed the cd's and located them. IIS showed up under components, but it wouldn't completely install all of it. On Saturday, January 3, 2004 at 3:52 am, Kathy wrote: >Hi Alex: Use the instructions found on this site and you will be able to install >iis rather than PWS. But as the instructions show you must use either WIN2000 or >XP CDs once you have completed the first few steps. I found the following on another >discussion group: How to set up a personal web server » >How to enable personal web sharing in Windows XP Home Edition. [via 4 Guys From Rolla >ASP FAQ, via Poochkiss, 2/23/2002] Microsoft has discontinued the Personal Web Sharing >product that came with Windows 95/98/ME, and IIS is only included in the Professional >Edition. Furthermore, they appear to have gone to some length to keep you from installing >it manually. > >Here’s what you have to do to set up a web server on Windows XP Home Edition: > >open C:\WINDOWS\INF\SYSOC.INF in Notepad or another text editor >locate a section called [Components] >find a line like this: iis=iis.dll,OcEntry,iis.inf,hide,7 >change it to this: iis=iis2.dll,OcEntry,iis2.inf,,7 >Copy IIS.DL_ and IIS.IN_ from the Windows 2000 Advanced Server CD (according to this >thread on devdex, Windows 2000 Professional CD also works, but the Professional Edition >of XP does not) >From a command prompt, EXPAND IIS.DL_ IIS2.DLL >Copy IIS2.DLL to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SETUP >From a command prompt, EXPAND IIS.IN_ IIS2.INF >Copy IIS2.INF to C:\WINDOWS\INF >Now you can start installing it. Go to Start menu, Settings, Control Panel, Add/Remove >Programs, Add New Programs, select IIS. >When prompted for files, alternately insert your XP Home Edition CD or the Advanced >Server CD. You will have to manually search for each file on each CD; it doesn’t >know the correct path for any of them. Some files (like INFOCTRS.DLL) are not on >either CD, but they are stored in compressed form in C:\WINDOWS\I386. Select the >compressed file (like INFOCTRS.DL_) and the installer will uncompress it and continue. >Reboot >You will still have to go to IIS Administration (Start menu, Settings, Control Panel, >Administrative Programs, IIS) and set up virtual directories (right-click on Default >Site and select "New virtual directory", then step through all the tabs to configure >it). Also (and I’m not clear on this step), you’ll need to go to the Directory Security >tab, click Edit, and browse for the user setup on your computer. If you have multiple >users on the machine, you would presumably have to set up separate virtual directories >for each of them and set privileges manually in order to allow each user to administer >their own virtual site. If anyone has actually succeeded in doing this, please let >me know." > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Saturday, February 3, 2007 at 8:34 am Posted by allan0201 (3 messages posted) I tried it agian and it worked. I don't know what changed, but it worked this time. I found a web page that has a better walthrough for getting IIS on XP home. It requires a windows 2000 or windows server cd. It shows how to configure IIS two after you install. http://adamv.com/dev/articles/iis-on-xp-home [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Saturday, February 3, 2007 at 8:53 am Posted by allan0201 (3 messages posted) I made a mistake in the previous message. You can't use a windows 2003 server cd with this. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home and Personal Web Server Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 5:11 pm Posted by venu (1 messages posted) hey peter, if u got those two files can u send them to me.i also need to install IIS in my XP home. thank you, venu On Tuesday, January 24, 2006 at 4:13 am, Peter wrote: >Hi There! > >I'm in dire need of the IIS.DL_ & IIS.IN_ files from >win2000 advanced server. I don't have access to >a win2000 cd. >If any of you have win2000 cd and want to help, >kindly get them for me from the win2000 cd at c:\windows\i386 . > >Thanks > >Peter > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum