PWS (no, not PMS) Does it really work?

[T]

The company I work for does not do any significant Web development. Anxious to learn the technology, I loaded Personal Web Server on my home machine (NT WORKSTATION). It loads OK, but it seems somewhat simplistic, and appears to have a lot of bugs (it hangs a lot). While I can get it to run an ASP page, I have never been able to get it to run a ASP page which calls a VB server side program which uses an Active X object. They run fine in the VB development environment but when I try to call the ASP page directly, PWS cannot create the objects. I am not sure if it is a security issue, a directory problem or something else. Most of the documentation I can find applies only to IIS server. Since IIS only runs on NT SERVER (and I cannot afford the $700.00 bucks for a 5 client version that only I use) I am stuck.

Has anyone out there got PWS to successfully deliver ASP pages which contain VB6 Server side programs which use ActiveX objects? I could sure use some tips!

Thanks

[msdnexpert]

PWS works fine and best on 95 and 98. For NT IIS is the best option. I suggest you try it out on 95/98.

[spower]

I run nt workstation at home and have installed option pack4(i believe this is a free download from MS). You didn't say if the directory you are running from has been setup as a web site, it needs to be. Also I my PC has a network card in it to fool PWS into thinking it's on a network otherwise I had to have my modem connected to the internet. I assume that your activex module is a DLL and not an EXE(must be DLL). If you use the text editor in interdev6 intellisense will expose the functions in your class object. Hope this helps.

[Mark Sreeves]

Works fine for me too!

Ive got it running on my NT4 workstation and also on an old 486 laptop running Win95