They said it can't be done.
I'm so glad I didn't pay $199.99 for the XP Pro upgrade. I contemplated it for sometime but I only wanted it to run IIS (and since I do have a box running Windows 2000 Server) I didn't get it.
Recently I moved and left my computers behind (temporarily). I was planning on shipping my main pc, but that runs XP Home so I wouldn't be able to develop (practically) ASP on it. While awaiting my comp, I've been using this nice little laptop which also runs XP home. I've been working on some PHP/MySQL sites lately so I installed Apache/PHP/MySQL on it and was happily coding away until I needed to work on my site which is done with ASP. I began searching the net again cause I remembered a "Hack" that would allow IIS to run on XP. After re-coding my site from ASP to PHP and then having the host crap out on me, I needed to switch back to ASP. In order to do that I needed to test the pages first. Long story short, IIS will run on XP Home. Assuming you have a Windows 2000 Pro/Server CD with the IIS files on it you can do it too. Read my article for a step by step tutorial.
Recently I moved and left my computers behind (temporarily). I was planning on shipping my main pc, but that runs XP Home so I wouldn't be able to develop (practically) ASP on it. While awaiting my comp, I've been using this nice little laptop which also runs XP home. I've been working on some PHP/MySQL sites lately so I installed Apache/PHP/MySQL on it and was happily coding away until I needed to work on my site which is done with ASP. I began searching the net again cause I remembered a "Hack" that would allow IIS to run on XP. After re-coding my site from ASP to PHP and then having the host crap out on me, I needed to switch back to ASP. In order to do that I needed to test the pages first. Long story short, IIS will run on XP Home. Assuming you have a Windows 2000 Pro/Server CD with the IIS files on it you can do it too. Read my article for a step by step tutorial.
Chris keyed this in on: 2003-10-11
Filed in: ASP, IIS, MySQL, PHP, Web Development, Webserver, Windows
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