Can I run IIS on XP Home edition?

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I have Windows XP Home edition. I don't want to actually host a web site,
but I do want to learn how to write asp applications using the .NET
framework. Is it possible to run IIS on XP home? Or is there some other
way I can practice writing ASP applications on my XP home system?
 
Dan said:
I have Windows XP Home edition. I don't want to actually host a web site,
but I do want to learn how to write asp applications using the .NET
framework. Is it possible to run IIS on XP home? Or is there some other
way I can practice writing ASP applications on my XP home system?
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IIS is restricted to Pro. The suggestion is to get apache - from
www.apache.org
 
Alex Nichol said:
IIS is restricted to Pro. The suggestion is to get apache - from
www.apache.org
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But OP was interested in writing ASP apps. ASP is a proprietary MS
technology and runs on MS platforms. Apache can't run ASP.

But that's not quite true. There's an add-in from Chilisoft that
implements ASP under Apache. AFAIK, it's not quite the same as the
native MS ASP that's included with IIS.

Maybe OP should get PHP (www.php.net) and Apache. PHP is the same idea
as ASP (mixing server-side script with HTML statements), but it's
open-source and cross-platform.

But it sure ain't ASP .NET.
 
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