Lack Of any Kind Of Personal Or IIS Web Server With XP Home

[Very Upset John]

Hello Everybody;

You don't know how very angry I am at this moment! A month
ago I bought a nice new computer with the default Windows
XP home edition (yes, I know, I should have paid maybe
$100 more and got the professional edition instead, but
unfortunatly one never thinks about those things at the
right time). Things were pretty good until about a week
ago when I bought Visual Studio 6.0 (imagine how even more
frustrated I would have been had I shelled out a grand for
visual Studio Net). Now I am trying to teach myself Active
Server Pages, Com programing, scripting, and all that good
stuff and here is what set my blood to boiling:

1 - XP home does not include the IIS web server like
every other post-98 version of windows
2 - OK, fine, I'll just use the personal web server
which supposedly 'ships with' visual studio instead, even
though I won't be able to access databases, among other
things
3 - The personal web server 'ships with' the windows nt
service pack 4.0 CD from visual studio, which simply
refuses to install on my XP home system because of a
missing or out-dated .dll
4 - OK fine, I'll just spend the money and upgrade to XP
professional. but NOOOOOOO, one cannot upgrade from XP
home to XP professional.
5 - OK then, I'll just buy a dog-gone web server. But
every web server software package I come across on the
internet specifically is for XP PROFESSIONAL, not home.

It seems like XP home is the only operating system known
to man which will not support any kind of a web server at
all (well, I was thinking of trying out an Apache, but
their servers don't work with ASP's or databases, and
those are the things I am trying to learn).

A couple of questions?

Can ANY kind of a web server run on XP home?

Is there any kind of IIS type server software available
for purchase which I can install and use in conjunction
with my Visual InterDev and other Visual Studio
applications?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Very Upset John

[Jupiter Jones]

John;
Windows XP Home can be upgraded to Pro.
It does not say so on the box presumably because the Microsoft
marketing did not foresee people upgrading from Home to Pro:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/upgrading/matrix.asp

How old is the computer?
Many manufacturers allow a return within 30 days of purchase.
Then you could get a windows XP Pro computer.

--
Jupiter Jones
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"Very Upset John" > wrote in message
...
> Hello Everybody;
>
> You don't know how very angry I am at this moment! A month
> ago I bought a nice new computer with the default Windows
> XP home edition (yes, I know, I should have paid maybe
> $100 more and got the professional edition instead, but
> unfortunatly one never thinks about those things at the
> right time). Things were pretty good until about a week
> ago when I bought Visual Studio 6.0 (imagine how even more
> frustrated I would have been had I shelled out a grand for
> visual Studio Net). Now I am trying to teach myself Active
> Server Pages, Com programing, scripting, and all that good
> stuff and here is what set my blood to boiling:
>
> 1 - XP home does not include the IIS web server like
> every other post-98 version of windows
> 2 - OK, fine, I'll just use the personal web server
> which supposedly 'ships with' visual studio instead, even
> though I won't be able to access databases, among other
> things
> 3 - The personal web server 'ships with' the windows nt
> service pack 4.0 CD from visual studio, which simply
> refuses to install on my XP home system because of a
> missing or out-dated .dll
> 4 - OK fine, I'll just spend the money and upgrade to XP
> professional. but NOOOOOOO, one cannot upgrade from XP
> home to XP professional.
> 5 - OK then, I'll just buy a dog-gone web server. But
> every web server software package I come across on the
> internet specifically is for XP PROFESSIONAL, not home.
>
> It seems like XP home is the only operating system known
> to man which will not support any kind of a web server at
> all (well, I was thinking of trying out an Apache, but
> their servers don't work with ASP's or databases, and
> those are the things I am trying to learn).
>
> A couple of questions?
>
> Can ANY kind of a web server run on XP home?
>
> Is there any kind of IIS type server software available
> for purchase which I can install and use in conjunction
> with my Visual InterDev and other Visual Studio
> applications?
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Very Upset John
>
>