XP Home Edition - Web Server

[Campbell's List]

I have Windows XP Home Edition installed. I just installed Macromedia
Dreamweaver MX to develop active server pages (ASP). In order to use the
program, I must have a web server installed -- either Internet Information
Server (IIS) or Personal Web Server (PWS). I could not find either servers
on this local machine, nor any instructions on how to download and install
them. I looked for a path called "C:\inetpub" but it doesn't exist.

What web server is used for XP Home Edition? How do I get it?

Thank you,

Rick R.

[aaron]

You need to download apache. IIS is not licensed for XP home.

aaron
"Campbell's List" > wrote in message
om...
> I have Windows XP Home Edition installed. I just installed Macromedia
> Dreamweaver MX to develop active server pages (ASP). In order to use the
> program, I must have a web server installed -- either Internet Information
> Server (IIS) or Personal Web Server (PWS). I could not find either servers
> on this local machine, nor any instructions on how to download and install
> them. I looked for a path called "C:\inetpub" but it doesn't exist.
>
> What web server is used for XP Home Edition? How do I get it?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Rick R.
>
>

[Mark Salloway]

Hi,
The IIS webserver is a feature of Windows XP Professional, it is also not
possible to use IIS or PWS on home edition. You can use a 3rd party server
such as apache (http://httpd.apache.org) but that does not have native asp
support. Brinkster do offer free asp enabled webspace, you could create
pages and upload to their server http://www.brinkster.com

Hope that helps
Mark

"Campbell's List" > wrote in message
om...
> I have Windows XP Home Edition installed. I just installed Macromedia
> Dreamweaver MX to develop active server pages (ASP). In order to use the
> program, I must have a web server installed -- either Internet Information
> Server (IIS) or Personal Web Server (PWS). I could not find either servers
> on this local machine, nor any instructions on how to download and install
> them. I looked for a path called "C:\inetpub" but it doesn't exist.
>
> What web server is used for XP Home Edition? How do I get it?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Rick R.
>
>

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

IIS is not included in XP Home and PWS will not work. You have several
choices:

Upgrade to XP Pro which does include IIS5.1 (limited to a single website
(multiple subwebs) and 10 simultaneous connections, a connection being
anything from a page to an image)....and does support FrontPage extensions

Use the Apache webserver (www.apache.org) which does NOT support FrontPage
extensions

Upgrade to Windows2003 Server edition with IIS6.0 if you need the
functionality of FrontPage extensions, multiple websites and unlimited
connections.

Cari
www.coribright.com



"Campbell's List" > wrote in message
om...
> I have Windows XP Home Edition installed. I just installed Macromedia
> Dreamweaver MX to develop active server pages (ASP). In order to use the
> program, I must have a web server installed -- either Internet Information
> Server (IIS) or Personal Web Server (PWS). I could not find either servers
> on this local machine, nor any instructions on how to download and install
> them. I looked for a path called "C:\inetpub" but it doesn't exist.
>
> What web server is used for XP Home Edition? How do I get it?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Rick R.
>
>