IIS in XP home

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"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."

Personal Web Server Is Not Included with Windows XP Home Edition
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304197

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx
 
Because 99% of the people who use XP Home don't need it. In fact, the huge
majority of people who use XP Professional don't need it either. Anyone who
knows he is going to be setting up a personal web server will have
researched the situation and will have opted to go with XP Professional.
It's the nature of being curious - and obtaining the facts.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
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Chris said:
Out of interest, why wasn't IIS included as part of XP home?
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Microsoft made two versions of Windows, with two different
prices. If they included everything in the cheaper version that
was in the more expensive version, nobody would buy the more
expensive one.

So if you want the additional features of XP Professional, you
have to pay more. It works the same way for almost all products
and shouldn't be surprising; for example, if you want the
additional features of a Toyota Camry XLE, you have to pay more
than you do for the Camry Standard.
 
Out of interest, why wasn't IIS included as part of XP home?
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Because people that run XP Home don't know enough to secure the systems
from hacks that running IIS would expose them to. XP Prof is designed
for use in network environments and in mostly a managed environment
where someone is at least marginally technical. Home users, not needing
the features of a managed system, does not contain the items that are
used for management or generally require management.
 
that is logical, but the thing is that they made it so PWS could not be
installed either,
while on win98 it could.
That FORCED people to get pro if they wanted an asp and frontpage extension
compatible
web server to develop web sites. There are other webservers for APS, but I
have not
found an alternative that has frontpage extensions too.
Fortunatly I looked into the differences of home and
pro before I bought, and find out that PWS could not be installed on Home
(by searching on google),
but how many people bought home and then tried to instal PWS and was
suprised that
it could not be done?

If there is a technical reason, MS should say on the box that HOME is not
compatible with PWS.

PS: if you DO know any server that runs on winXP home, and that is frontpage
extension compatible tell me,
apache is but microsoft has NOT released the frontpage extensions for the
WINDOWS
version of apache so they would FORCE people to use IIS, rather they
released it only for linux
and other unix invironments so they could sell frontpage to more people.

Looks like MS does what it wants to manipulate the market.
 
Chris said:
Out of interest, why wasn't IIS included as part of XP home?
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One of the items (like joining a domain, or full file access controls in
NTFS) which were seen as 'corporate' matters and so the higher price
package
 
that is logical, but the thing is that they made it so PWS could not be
installed either,
while on win98 it could.
That FORCED people to get pro if they wanted an asp and frontpage extension
compatible
web server to develop web sites. There are other webservers for APS, but I
have not
found an alternative that has frontpage extensions too.
Fortunatly I looked into the differences of home and
pro before I bought, and find out that PWS could not be installed on Home
(by searching on google),
but how many people bought home and then tried to instal PWS and was
suprised that
it could not be done?
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It is pretty well advertised on the MS site that IIS/PWS won't work on
Home. If you do the research you should do ahead of time when making
purchases this won't be such a surprise.
If there is a technical reason, MS should say on the box that HOME is not
compatible with PWS.
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It is also not compatible with many older DOS games or ANY application
that attempts to directly access hardware and bypass the OS. That's
not on the box either.

If they tried putting everything on the box that WON'T run under the
OS, they would quickly run out of room or need a box the size of a
semi trailer.
PS: if you DO know any server that runs on winXP home, and that is frontpage
extension compatible tell me,
apache is but microsoft has NOT released the frontpage extensions for the
WINDOWS
version of apache so they would FORCE people to use IIS, rather they
released it only for linux
and other unix invironments so they could sell frontpage to more people.

Looks like MS does what it wants to manipulate the market.
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It's called a free market. If you don't like it, switch over to
Linux, or some other UNIX environment. Buy an Apple computer. You
have other choices.
 
Thinking of Getting Toshiba Qoaimo G20 IIS is a priority and I am Put off by
the Windows Media Centre OS but I have been told that I can partition the
disk to run two operating systems. Is this correct? and are there any
conflicts between WMC and Windows 2000 ?
 
IIS is included in Windows Media Center 2005. Nothing wrong with MCE 2005.
I use it daily. It's the ONLY O/S on my desktop.
--
Cari
(MS-MVP Printing & Imaging)

"Just trying to buy a decent computer" <Just trying to buy a decent
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Thinking of Getting Toshiba Qoaimo G20 IIS is a priority and I am Put off
by
the Windows Media Centre OS but I have been told that I can partition the
disk to run two operating systems. Is this correct? and are there any
conflicts between WMC and Windows 2000 ?
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Wow! Such hostility in these replies. I, too, have recently decided to
learn ASP.NET and try some heavier web site development. I've been out of
this line of work for some time. I thought it would be fun to challenge
myself with something like this. I downloaded Visual Web Developer Express,
bought a couple books, and went for it. Maybe during the download process,
Microsoft mentioned that certain functions wouldn't work on XP Home, but it
wasn't very obvious. Not that I would've understood. I didn't know what IIS
was until I hit the road block of trying to learn about and try the login
controls.

Remember folks, I admire you walking the company line, but I bet Mr. Gates
wouldn't appreciate your tone in your replies. There are many users like
myself that never would have imagined needing some of these features. I
purchased XP Home 2 years ago. It's only been a week or so since I decided
to attempt this ASP.NET stuff. I would like to learn more, but I'm not going
to shell out hundreds of dollars for an OS upgrade for fun.

Besides, I've found countless inquiries about this IIS on XP Home thing all
over the net. This isn't a small issue. It's not just a few users. Can't
y'all do something for us?
 
Sure, buy a version of the operating system that provides the features
you need. If you want a car with a V8 don't buy a 4 banger and then
bitch about the V-8 not being available. If you what it, you know the
correct method to correct the issue. If you are just looking for a
little fun go buy a game your operating system supports and have a blast.
 
MultiGuy wrote:

<snip?
Besides, I've found countless inquiries about this IIS on XP Home thing all
over the net. This isn't a small issue. It's not just a few users. Can't
y'all do something for us?
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Do what? IIS doesn't run on XP Home. It needs Pro. Get an OEM XP Pro
and do a clean install or a retail upgrade of XP Pro and do an upgrade.
 
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