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UserLoser. · November 26, 2003, 06:43 PM

I believe it's an ASP/ASP.net interpreter? Whatever the thing is called that translates the code in the actual page, back to the server and the server outputs sends it to the browsing user. I need one that will work on Windows XP Home. I had seliSoft's ActiveHTML, but that was only a trial and it costs money. I'm using Abyss Web Server.

Skywing · November 26, 2003, 06:46 PM

Quote from: UserLoser. on November 26, 2003, 06:43 PM
I believe it's an ASP/ASP.net interpreter? Whatever the thing is called that translates the code in the actual page, back to the server and the server outputs sends it to the browsing user. I need one that will work on Windows XP Home. I had seliSoft's ActiveHTML, but that was only a trial and it costs money. I'm using Abyss Web Server.

This is exactly why you should get Windows XP Professional - among other things, it has IIS with ASP(.NET) support...

UserLoser. · November 26, 2003, 06:52 PM

I'm not to sure what IIS is, mind explaining? Also, can it be downloaded (from ms?)/installed on to a XP Home system?

Skywing · November 26, 2003, 07:04 PM

Quote from: UserLoser. on November 26, 2003, 06:52 PM
I'm not to sure what IIS is, mind explaining? Also, can it be downloaded (from ms?)/installed on to a XP Home system?

Microsoft's site provides information on IIS on Windows XP Professional. I have no experience with trying to get it to work on Windows XP Home Edition.

Banana fanna fo fanna · November 26, 2003, 08:06 PM

IIS is Microsoft's crappy web server. Don't use it. Honestly.

UserLoser. · November 26, 2003, 08:30 PM

What would you suggest then?

MyndFyre · November 26, 2003, 08:36 PM

Actually, there's a way to install IIS 6 if you have any kind of WinXP Pro (e.g. the trial) CD on XP Home, let me see if I can dig it up somewhere at home. You can also try Cassini Web Server, do a search at www.GotDotNet.com.

Denial · November 26, 2003, 10:33 PM

yes get the newest iis the old ones 4.0 and such have easy exploits and you would soon be seeing cats all over your site.

Banana fanna fo fanna · November 27, 2003, 09:40 AM

Yes, Cassini is what you want.

UserLoser. · November 27, 2003, 11:04 AM

Well I searched for Cassini, i found it on Asp.net, but in the download you have to compile it... And it doesn't work for me, i guess i don't have the right compiler/whatever else is needed for it... Can someone compile the exe, dll, and upload it somewhere?

quasi-modo · November 28, 2003, 02:36 AM

cassini only accepts local requests so it is only going to work when you type http://localhost or http://yourlocalip etc.

j0k3r · November 28, 2003, 07:48 AM

Quote from: peofeoknight on November 28, 2003, 02:36 AM
cassini only accepts local requests so it is only going to work when you type http://localhost or http://yourlocalip etc.

It's the same thing for Apache/PHPDEV, so I'll try to elaborate. Anything you want to run or have executed will probably have to go in a subfolder called 'www' (I'm assuming it's the similar to PHPDEV) in the folder where you start your program, but this is an assumption. When you open http://localhost it will probably look in that folder.

quasi-modo · November 28, 2003, 12:27 PM

I have used cassini. It is only going to work for testing purposes of a site but can't be used to host it. But about the folder thing, you can change the path but it recognizes that folder as a virtual directory. For example when I used it breifly for testing my pages before I had iis the folder was the same one I keep all of my work in. So if all of your files are in folder called "aspnet work" on your desktop, you would create a shorcut to cassini there and then go into properties and type in the path where it asks for the path.

Banana fanna fo fanna · November 28, 2003, 08:59 PM

What you'd do is hook up something like either a virtual directory, host, file type, or mod_rewrite rule in Apache to direct all ASP.NET requests to Cassini.

I forget exactly what it is. If it's important, I'll look it up for you.

quasi-modo · November 29, 2003, 09:51 PM

Heh, I can just let someone dl a copy of iis if they need it.