Running IIS on XP home

[oceanebelle]

General HOWTO for running IIS in Windows XP Home Edition.

by Richard Sandoz - Certified Java Programmer

(1) locate and edit the file C:\WINDOWS\INF\SYSOC.INF

(2) locate a section called [Components]

(3) find a line like this:
iis=iis.dll,OcEntry,iis.inf,hide,7

(4) change it to this (the iis cab in the i386 xp home folder looks to
be nothing)
iis=iis2.dll,OcEntry,iis2.inf,,7

(some sort of ms caching thing keeps sticking back iis.dll when I try
to nuke it. quickly renaming and making hidden dir called iis.dll
seems to thwart, but not worth it, so iis2.dll is good enough)

(5) I grabbed the iis.dl_ and iis.in_ from win2k advanced server cd.

I would guess similar techniques would work from W98, FP, etc.
Use "EXPAND IIS.DL_ IIS2.DLL" from a command prompt
Same for IIS2.INF, place IIS2.INF in C:\WINDOWS\INF and IIS2.DLL in
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SETUP

(6) Now when I did "add windows programs" from the control panel's add
new programs,

I had IIS options and I could even check em off. yippee - could not
check em off from my xppro cd ((

I just went with the defaulted ones though (all i needed was iis web
server)

(7) It will prompt you for files. Get em from MS XP Home CDs, Adv
Server CDs, C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\INETSRV, C:\WINDOWS\I386, etc. (It will
tell you the file it needs, you just need to have a searcher going,
probably the CDs will have all you need)

(8) You can get to your IIS from Control Panel's Administrative
Programs.
I stuck in an index.html file and reconfigure IIS to work like this.
No go ((
I right clicked on my inetpub folder and did something with shared
folders. No go ((
I looked at the event viewer and saw the error of my ways.
Go to IIS and goto Directory Security tab and click Edit button and
Browse for the user setup on my laptop.

(9) Yippee, hello world from http://localhost

I won't support this solution unless paid to. I am an out of work
developer looking for work.

I bought a Toshiba 5005 laptop which came with XP home.
I then bought Win XP Professional.
I have bunches of CDs from when I was a MSDN subscriber.
From a general search on the internet I found contradictions.

Microsoft says you need professional XP to do IIS period.
q310090 was yanked from their site which had the "workaround" for
this.

When I tried to setup XP upgrade to pro, my laptop rebooted and hung
on an xp logo with an animated graphic.
I have verified this to be the case with others as well. Upgrading to
xp pro isn't an option for this laptop.

howto found here



has anyone tried the above howto???

[dglienna]

It's not worth even trying. Pay the money for Pro or W2K. I'm sure anything you can find on the net is misinformation. If it worked, it'd be killed. Too many people have tried mixing OS's to get it to work, and I've never seen anyone succeed.

[Hack]

It's not worth even trying. Pay the money for Pro or W2K. I'm sure anything you can find on the net is misinformation. If it worked, it'd be killed. Too many people have tried mixing OS's to get it to work, and I've never seen anyone succeed.

I tried. I have four PCs at home. One setup as a file server, and the other three are workstations. Just for kicks and giggles, I tried setting up IIS on XP Home (I didn'nt really care if it worked or not as I fully intened to put Pro on it), and I failed miserably. dglienna is right. Unless you are a glutton for punishment (like me ), it isn't even worth the effort.

[oceanebelle]

ahahaha, wokies.

I just stumbled upon that yesterday, and i assure you I havn't tried it. But just for "kicks and giggles" I might do that, but then my OS is japanese, and that's an entirely different matter. I'd get frustrated more on what to click, where to find places, what the error messages says, etc... than actually trying the above solution.

and perhaps I will buy pro for my workstation at home... but I am away from it all right now... I miss my PC with the english version waaaaah.

[eyeRmonkey]

Funny you brought this up. I used that guide and it didn't work at first, then I found some other stuff and threw it all into a .doc so I could remember it if I need to do it again. I'll attach it here if no mods have a problem with it.

PS - I just realized you asked to banned for a while (or I am assuming so by your title?).

[nothingofvalue]

I was not posting this b/c the last time I did it was removed by a moderator, however, since I see a moderator has actually posted in this thread I will try it again.

I implemented the IIs on XP Home with no problem. The post above, I tried too with no success, as it leaves a few things out. My complete solution is here:

http://nothingofvalue.com/articles.php?cat_id=1

Hope it helps and hope it works as well for each of you as it did for me.

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Thought I would add a pic for those doubters

[mendhak]

howto found here



has anyone tried the above howto???

12 times. Managed to get IIS installed using a few other tricks in between, but it would only work for HTML and PHP pages.