Vista Basic Home Edition - need IIS

[Ellie]

Am I able to add IIS to this? If so, how? I can install Apache but I have an
ASP 3.0 website that I need to develop. Is it possible to use Apache for ASP
3.0? What about ASP.net? There is a web server in the VS 2005 development
environment but I haven't tried it yet, mostly because my web app is ASP
3.0. I'm new to Vista, and ASP too so any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Ellie

 

[Ellie]

Can I download IIS 6 to run on my Vista Home Basic Edition? Is there
anything that I can download to work with ASP 3.0 that will be compatible
with my Vista? Thanks

 

[Ellie]

What about IIS4? Will that work with ASP 3.0 and be compatible with Vista?
All I really need is something for that one ASP.net website and all of my
other work will be with ASP.net. It doesn't seem worth spending $130 to
upgrade to Vista Premium.

 

[Ellie]

It looks like it's only $79.00 to upgrade to Premium but the website doesn't
really have any useful comparisons between the two versions of vista.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

What about IIS4? Will that work with ASP 3.0 and be compatible with Vista?
All I really need is something for that one ASP.net website and all of my
other work will be with ASP.net. It doesn't seem worth spending $130 to
upgrade to Vista Premium.

I'm not sure what the situation is about running VirtualPC on Vista Basic,
but if you can, and you only need this for development, you can always try
using one of the free trials for Vista Enterprise or Windows Server 2008 in
..vhd format.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/bb738372.aspx

Once it expires, you can just download the next .vhd and use that.

ss.

 

[xfile]

My two cents,

If you are going to use Vista, you then have to upgrade to one that has IIS
7.

As for using IIS 7 with ASP, you can visit the following two links as a
starting point:

Tips for Classic ASP developers on IIS7
http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2007/05/21/tips-for-classic-asp-developers-on-iis7.aspx

Forum discussing usage of Classic ASP applications on the IIS 7 platform:

http://forums.iis.net/1044.aspx

My understanding is that Apache, by default, does not support ASP but you
could search the net for add-on that should work.


Hope this helps and good luck.

 

[The Bee]

Am I able to add IIS to this? If so, how? I can install Apache but I
have an ASP 3.0 website that I need to develop. Is it possible to use
Apache for ASP 3.0? What about ASP.net? There is a web server in the VS
2005 development environment but I haven't tried it yet, mostly because
my web app is ASP 3.0. I'm new to Vista, and ASP too so any help would
be appreciated. Thanks Ellie

You got an ASP 3.0 site you need to develop, then you need IIS7 to do it
properly. You talk of VS 2005 having a Web server, yes, it has one which
is based off of a File System, and you would still need to convert the
File System developed solution over to a true Web server application
that runs against IIS.

The VS 2005 Web server File System is only for development or demo
purposes to get something going quickly, and is by no means a permanent
solution.

You need to upgrade to Vista Ultimate or Business to get the full
version of IIS7 that you can use with ASP 3.0 and ASP.NET Web development.

Here is some information about ASP 3.0 and IIS7. You'll find more
information by using Google.

http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2007/05/21/tips-for-classic-asp-developers-on-iis7.aspx