[RESOLVED] IIS On Developer XP

[Pino]

Ok So I've had to move to a Windows XP Box (Vista was so cool) anyways I now have to use IIS6 which only seems to support 1 website, how do you guys go about have a developer box where you can only set up one website?

Pino

[gep13]

Hey,

Are you sure you are speaking about IIS6? The version of IIS that comes with Windows XP is version 5.1?!?

In terms of your question though, I normally just have a number of virtual directories for the various applications I am working on, under the default web site.

Gary

[Pino]

Hey,

Are you sure you are speaking about IIS6? The version of IIS that comes with Windows XP is version 5.1?!?

In terms of your question though, I normally just have a number of virtual directories for the various applications I am working on, under the default web site.

Gary

Yes your right not sure why I said 6, however if you set up virtual directories. Are you previewing the sites at localhost/SiteName ?

Pino

[gep13]

Hey,

Yes, that is the way that I do it for development purposes when needed, or if it is just a "quick and dirty" website for testing purposes I will just fire it up straight from Visual Studio.

Once the majority of the work has been completed and it is ready for more thorough testing I would move it over to a staging server, i.e. with Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6 on it, and give it it's own website.

I have heard of some "hacks" in which you can run multiple websites on Windows XP, namely:

http://www.gafvert.info/iis/article/...ebsites_xp.htm

What I have also heard that these aren't very reliable and I have never tried it myself.

Gary

[Pino]

This is a bit of a pain really. Most of the sites we have here use heavy URL Rewriting so I cant run fro VS directly. We usually set a HOSTS file entry for the site site1.dev.com and then set the host header in iis. This works well because sites that refer to direct URL's continue to work.

Thanks

[gep13]

Hey,

Ah, I see what you are getting at. It may be the case that something like IISAdmin as linked to in the article I posted might help you out there, but I really can't say, as I have never used it.

Is there no chance of getting a different OS for your development machine?

Gary

[Pino]

Not really it was my decision to bring my department inline!

I'll take a look at the link, thanks for that.

Pino

[gep13]

Oops

I hope you get it all sorted out!!!

[Pino]

Its not a big issue, just would make life easier if we could host more than one site. Most of my guys use the Dev server we have anyways so they don't need to run the offending sites locally

Thanks for the help