IIS 6 on Windows XP? [Given up :(]

[<ABX]

Are there any reasons why IIS 6 would not function on XP?

Has anyone gotten IIS 6 to run on XP Pro?

[mendhak]

IIS does not work with Windows XP HOME EDITION. It'll work perfectly well on XP Pro.

I'm not sure about IIS 6 though, because XP comes with IIS 5.1/5.

[<ABX]

IIS 5.X can work with XP home edition w/ a few modifications.

[mendhak]

I've been down that path before, never seen it work though. I was able to only get as far as having IIS serve up HTML/HTM pages, but it couldn't go for ASP.

Were you able to do this? Did you use those infamous instructions floating around on the web?

[<ABX]

Havent tried it... I have had XP Pro Corp since it came out.

Just one of those things i remember reading on a forum.

[<ABX]

Well, im officially going to give it a reset at trying to make it work. I wrecked two clean installs trying (gotta love VPC ).

Got windows to install it via add remove windows components (after removing the requirement for com+ -- as far as i could tell xp had the support the install just couldnt find it)

Afterwards iis.mmc kept reporting errors that i couldnt figure out why it didnt work (prolly expecting some w2k3 COM compoents).

Although i didnt get it working, i learnt some neat tricks to try on my next version of my custom xp disc.

[plenderj]

You could use Windows XP Professional x64 edition because that uses IIS 6

... haveing said that, XPP x64 is Windows Server 2003 with an XP frontend, so of course it comes with IIS6

[<ABX]

Didnt know of that option... I guess I will have to think about upgrading to a 64bit processor. Is it limited in the number of web sites it can host? (if so, i'd probably just end up going w/ w2k3 as a workstation.)

[plenderj]

Good question - I don't know. Windows XP Professional is limited, if I remember correctly to something like 10 concurrent connections. But if you turn off HTTP KeepAlive then you can make it appear as though you're serving more.

Given that XPP x64 is Windows Server 2003 - I don't know if they've implemented any sort of throttling in IIS. From what I could see, IIS seemed identical - but then I didn't go digging that deep...

[capsulecorpjx]

Are there any reasons why IIS 6 would not function on XP?

Has anyone gotten IIS to run on XP?

Well if you're not particular, you can try:
Apache Web Server / Php
or Tomcat (with Apache) / Java Servlets

With MySQL database as a backend.

If you really want to use IIS, then I guess buy XP Pro.