| Manda O''Connell 2006-04-18, 12:47 am |
| Mikael, this was really helpful - funnily enough, I had had similar thoughts
- ie installing on my laptop - see the post from Ronx however on this thread
about the connection limitation with Win2K also.
Thanks for such detailed help.
"Mikael Ljung" wrote:
> Hi,
> I had some similar problems on one of my schools computers. The IT department just installed iis server extensions on an xp machine for me and my students and left without saying anythning. I tried hard and finally gave up working with it and installed
iis with serverextensions on my laptop at home since i didn´t get it to work.
> This is what I did differently on my laptop:
> In IIS manager:
> 1 I avoided creating virtual directories
> 2 I allowed only running of scripts (not executables)on wwwrooot (scripts are necessary for asp to work)
> 3 I didn´t create a website in IIS... there is already one which is named default web site... the default.asp (or index.htm) in wwwroot is the web site which is displayed when you write http://computername in iexplorer... and it is actually the only on
e you can create in xp... an xp limitation...
> 4 since I found out that only one web site is possible with iis for xp I created sub sites for the different students in this way:
> I right clicked the default web site icon and selected Frontpage server extensions web site to create the sub sites for my students.
> In frontpage then finally:
> 1 File->Publish site-> Frontpage or Share... ->http://computername/student1.... everythning went fine....
> next problem I came across was the 7 connections limit...
> apparently microsoft fooled all of us when they renamed pws to iis in xp.... iisxp is not a full-fledged web server at all
> I am switching to win2k now
>
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