Avoiding PWS for ASP pages?

KLWong posted this at 17:51 — 26th October 2000.

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I have just spent two whole days trying to get Personal Web Server running on my old, slow, small-hard-drive Windows 95 laptop.

I spend about one day each week away from my web/internet connections, and would really like to be able to use this time to work on my websites.

I know that PWS is supposed to run on Windows 95, but I have had one problem after another installing it. I had to upgrade to IE 4, it complained about no TCP/IP when it was right there, etc. When I finally got the installation going (off a Windows 98 CD), even that had tons of errors. The first was an oh-so-helpful "could not copy 1 or more files" (which ones? why not? it might help if I knew!) followed by several "CoGetClassObject Server execution failed" messages. The only fix I can find in Microsoft's Knowledge Base for this is for Windows NT. I skipped through all these install errors, now PWS doesn't work, of course, and now I can't even uninstall the darn thing with Add/Remove Programs due to an iis.dll not loaded (which is there in several directories).

Anyway, my question remains: is there any other way to test ASP pages (that use an Access database) on a machine like this? I would even be happy with some sort of "compiler" that would take .ASP files and output .HTML pages to look at with the browser.

I would also be grateful for pointers to *good* help on PWS, as I haven't totally ruled it out yet.

Thanks,

Kristen

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Jim Shilt posted this at 19:16 — 26th October 2000.

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Kristin,

I used to use PWS until I updated to IE5. PWS uses a winsock that is incompatable with the new 128 encription.

I now use HTTP_hs available at http://www.herdsoft.com

I don't know if it will do asp pages but it works really fast and well with SSI and cgi scripts

Hope this helps

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Mark Hensler posted this at 21:39 — 26th October 2000.

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You can't forget about Apache! Don't ask me how, but my friend, the unix wiz at work, got apache on a unix box to run apache and somehow support ASP. I think he used a module or ChilASP or something.

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KLWong posted this at 22:37 — 26th October 2000.

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Jim, as far as I can see from their site, the Herdsoft server doesn't do ASP -- I'm sure that would be a big selling point and it would be mentioned if it did.

Max, Could I run Apache/Chili!ASP on a slow, old Windows 95 IBM laptop? Seems like it would be more hassle than a straight Windows solution. I'm already almost out of hard disk space....

I think I'm really close to getting PWS working, if only I could find the fix for the "CoGetClassObject Server execution failed" installation error on Windows 95...lots of web stuff on fixing it on NT.

Keep the ideas coming...!

Kristen

http://www.RewardsLookup.com and
http://www.cancerdrugfeedback.net still under early development
Personal page:http://www.isd.net/kwong/kristen.html

Peter J. Boettcher posted this at 16:52 — 27th October 2000.

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Kristen,

If your laptop can handle it, consider installing Windows NT. It doesn't need that much more power/memory than Win95. Then you can grab Option pack four which includes IIS4 and you're set!

PWS is a real buggy piece of software, I would recommend staying far away from this pooper. Plus you can't fully test an ASP environment unless you're running IIS since it's required for certain objects.

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Peter J. Boettcher

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