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[UserLoser.]

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]

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.]

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]

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]

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

[UserLoser.]

What would you suggest then?

[MyndFyre]

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]

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]

Yes, Cassini is what you want.

[UserLoser.]

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]

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

[j0k3r]

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]

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]

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]

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