ISS & XP Home

Hi folks, new member here.

I am running XP home on a Vaio laptop, but specifically need Microsoft IIS running for some active server page development. XP Home sadly seems not to be able to run IIS and I guess that I need to either put the laptop to XP Pro, or find something which is 100% compatible with IIS and hope the client does not notice. So, I have 2 questions

1) Is the upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro painless or are there any obvious pitfalls

2) Can anyone recommend a cheap (free ), compatible web server that I could download.

Thanks folks

 

You might want to check out apache. I'm certain that it supports ASP. I had it running on XP Home, too. Although, it seems very odd to me that IIS wouldn't work on XP Home....

Check out http://www.apache.org

 

Or an unsupported way:

http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020118.htm

Which gives details on "how" to install IIS on XP HOME.

Also, for apache running asp, here is a good link:

http://www.apache-asp.org/