IIS in Vista Basic?

**coolkbk585** · 09-30-2007, 07:43 PM

Is there any program that will make IIS work in Vista? Or do I need to get one of those addons for Apache to make ASP work? =/

**chrishirst** · 09-30-2007, 07:54 PM

ASP for Apache is not compatible with the MS versions so a lot of things won't work.

You could upgrade to a different Vista version, or install Win2k or XP instead.

**ForrestCroce** · 10-01-2007, 01:31 AM

I thought Vista came with IIS 7?

**coolkbk585** · 10-02-2007, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by ForrestCroce

I thought Vista came with IIS 7?

It comes is all versions but Basic =/

**Learning Newbie** · 10-02-2007, 03:48 PM

Maybe he was confused and thought you meant the Basic programming language? Forrest is kind of an idiot.

What you want to do is not install a different operating system (at $400 a pop?) since there are like 18 flavors of Vista. Instead, we're gonna bypass IIS altogether.

One traditional way to do that is have a development server, which a lot of people just use the live sever as. I don't know about you, but I don't like playing Russian Roulette. What if you could run a mini-IIS and get your ASP.NET to run on your personal Windows machine.

Visual Web Developer Express is a Microsoft product, and a free one, that's an Integrated Development Environment or IDE. It lets you type out code, has all the great stuff like highlighting, error detecting, you can hover the mouse over a variable and get more info, there's a debugger, all that stuff you would expect. There's also a test server, something that will actually run your code.

Then once it's ready and perfect, you upload it to your real server with the latest IIS. But if you make a mistake, you didn't break the site.

**chrishirst** · 10-03-2007, 03:11 AM

Only runs .net code though

I played with Baby Web Server briefly, some time ago, didn't find any problems as I recall.

**sri_gan** · 10-04-2007, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by coolkbk585

Is there any program that will make IIS work in Vista? Or do I need to get one of those addons for Apache to make ASP work? =/

Cool,

Try the visual studio developer express and use the file based web project, that will help you develop web apps and test'em there.

**Learning Newbie** · 10-04-2007, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

Only runs .net code though

Is there any other?

IIS can run ASP and it can run ASP.NET but it can also run them both, like a split application. So the .NET only version is incomplete for a lot of legacy sites. If you're starting from scratch unless the customer wants ASP Classic you're good to go tho.

**coolkbk585** · 10-04-2007, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

Only runs .net code though

I played with Baby Web Server briefly, some time ago, didn't find any problems as I recall.

Baby Web Server runs ASP then? Not .NET, right? I'm good at PHP, but I just want to see what I can do in ASP. Nothing special, just toying around.

**ADAM Web Design** · 10-05-2007, 12:08 AM

coolkbk85: IIS can run ASP in Windows Vista Home Premium (not sure about Basic, but I suspect the steps are the same).

If you click the ASP section within IIS administration, you'll see a series of boxes under Properties. One of these is "Enable", and for some stupid reason it's set to False by default. Set it to True, and you're done.

**coolkbk585** · 10-06-2007, 01:00 PM

No. That's not the problem. It's not running static pages either...

This is a post I made on IIS.NET about it, and this is a link to another thread that someone gave me.

Apparently Basic doesn't come with something that it needs.

**ForrestCroce** · 10-06-2007, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by coolkbk585

Apparently Basic doesn't come with something that it needs.

That's pretty common with Microsoft. Vista Basic doesn't need IIS, you do; and for that you need to send a few hundred over to Paul Allen. You can use John's free test server, but only for .net pages; you can use the free version of sql server, but only if your entire database with indexes comes to 4 gb or less. Microsoft likes issuing teasers and forcing people to spend 50 % more for 15 % more functionality. Really not that different from Canon or Nikon.

XP pro comes with IIS, but only lets you run one web site on it.

**chrishirst** · 10-07-2007, 06:37 AM

Not that many people will know who Paul Allen is without a Google search

Unless of course they have heard of "Traf-O-Data"

**coolkbk585** · 10-07-2007, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

Not that many people will know who Paul Allen is without a Google search

Unless of course they have heard of "Traf-O-Data"

I knew who he was

**Johnno** · 10-09-2007, 01:22 AM

Hey "Learning Newbie", thanks for the heads up re Visual Web Developer Express. I was looking for something to use to learn .NET - no excuses now!