Does WinXP come with a webserver?

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Windows 2000 comes with IIS5 (which must be installed separately).

Does Windows XP have an IIS webserver? How is it installed?

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Vic
 
Yes it does.

Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs -> Add/Remove Windows Components.

HTH
 
Yes it does.

Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs -> Add/Remove Windows Components.

HTH
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However, it is limited to 5 concurrent connections, IIRC (maybe 10 but
not sure). That's really limited for an internet server.
 
Victor said:
Windows 2000 comes with IIS5 (which must be installed separately).

Does Windows XP have an IIS webserver? How is it installed?
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XP Pro comes with IIS (Microsoft's Internet Information Server). The
other posters have told you how to install it. If you have XP Home,
you can run other web servers like Apache (http://httpd.apache.org), a
free, open-source, very widely used web server.
 
Does Windows XP have an IIS webserver? How is it installed?
However, it is limited to 5 concurrent connections, IIRC (maybe 10 but
not sure). That's really limited for an internet server.
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XP is not a server OS. If you *really* want to host a public web site, then
XP is not the solution.

For all intents and purposes, 5-10 connections is plenty for IIS running on
XP. I do some web development on my XP Pro machine, and have never found
that 'limit' to be an issue. Heck, at some point I might even consider
removing IIS, as Visual Studio 2005 comes with its own little test server.
 
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