IIS or Similar for Windows XP Home Edition

[Guest]

I am a multimedia student who is learning ASP. As part of my assignment we
have to generate and test ASP pages. We were told to install IIS or PWS from
Windows to do this but I cannot find a version which is compatible with
Windows XP? Is there any free ultility or application I can get which can
allow me to test my ASP pages.

 

[Tim Slattery]

I am a multimedia student who is learning ASP. As part of my assignment we
have to generate and test ASP pages. We were told to install IIS or PWS from
Windows to do this but I cannot find a version which is compatible with
Windows XP? Is there any free ultility or application I can get which can
allow me to test my ASP pages.

IIS comes with WinXP Professional. It cannot be install on WinXP Home.

There are other web servers that can be installed on XP Home (Apache,
at http://httpd.apache.com, for one), but since ASP is proprietary
Microsoft technology, only IIS runs it.

 

[Iwan]

IIS comes with WinXP Professional. It cannot be install on WinXP Home.

There are other web servers that can be installed on XP Home (Apache,
at http://httpd.apache.com, for one), but since ASP is proprietary
Microsoft technology, only IIS runs it.

it's not true. i used to have similar problem, too. i run winxp pro, and
needed my website to support more than 10 connections. i searched the web
for days, tested many servers that claims being able to support asp.

finally, able to trim down into 2 servers, namely Abyss Web Server and
Xeneo Web Server.

Abyss need additional plug-in to support asp. Xeneo comes with native
support.

So, I recommend you to use Xeneo. It's available for download from
Northern Solutions. It's not free, but can be made free.