Getting a web server

[PinkMoon]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me if there is a free web server I can use to test ASP code at home. I know that you can use Tomcat to test JSP code and it's freely available. Is there an equivalent for ASP?

Thanks very much,

PinkMoon

[mmetzger]

Depends on how you define "free"... If you have a copy of Win2000, you can use IIS for free. If you are trying to do this with Linux, you can use Mono to do ASP.NET, but not ASP.

[PinkMoon]

Depends on how you define "free"... If you have a copy of Win2000, you can use IIS for free. If you are trying to do this with Linux, you can use Mono to do ASP.NET, but not ASP.

Hi,

I have Windows XP Home Edition. Can I use IIS? If so, can you tell me how to use it?

Thanks very much,

PinkMoon

[mmetzger]

Err, I don't know about XP Home...

Go to Add / Remove Programs and click on Add/Remove Windows Components. You should see an option in there for either IIS or possibly PWS (Personal Web Server). If you enable that, it should let you serve pages. I know it's in XP Pro, just not sure about Home.

[PinkMoon]

There's no sign of it there.
Thanks for your help anyway.

[mmetzger]

Yeah, apparently it was entirely removed from XP Home. If you do searches for "XP HOME IIS" in google, you will get some interesting links. Whether you follow them is at your own regard...