microsoft IIS or PWS
i woud like to learn asp, but i need one of two programs installed on my computer, either IIS or PWS, but microsofts web page is unorganized and hard to look through, does anyone know where i can get these or if they are even supported on win XP personal.
anyone can do any amount of work provided it isnt the work they are supposed to be doing.
jammin posted this at 01:44 — 1st April 2003.
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nevermind i just found out that you cant run asp on xp home edition. stupid microsoft, now what server language should i learn, php and asp were my first choices but i cant install the stuff to work with either of them.
anyone can do any amount of work provided it isnt the work they are supposed to be doing.
ROB posted this at 02:52 — 1st April 2003.
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asp makes me want to barf. it's pretty much VB, i don't mind VB but i hate ASP for some reason. Anyways, it's all personal preference, i'd personally recommend perl or php but they all do the same thing.
ROB posted this at 02:54 — 1st April 2003.
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also you shouldnt have to install asp, it's part of IIS. no reason you shouldnt be able to install php either... i'd recommend dumping the microsoft webservers and installing apache.
edit: ok just realized you said you cant because you have home edition - get apache!
Busy posted this at 03:02 — 1st April 2003.
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I believe the php bundles (apache, php, mysql etc) work on XP home edition firepages.com.au has them and manuals etc
jammin posted this at 03:08 — 1st April 2003.
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i tried to install a couple of those bundles, but they diditn work, they just caused errors it might have just been the programs, so i will give it a try. thanks
anyone can do any amount of work provided it isnt the work they are supposed to be doing.
jammin posted this at 04:32 — 1st April 2003.
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... well it installed fine, but it wont work, isnt there some way i can JUST install php and not any server or anything, i just want to be able to test my php files on my computer to make sure they work.
anyone can do any amount of work provided it isnt the work they are supposed to be doing.
ROB posted this at 21:34 — 1st April 2003.
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no. you may be able to compile just the clphp executable, but it wouldnt let you see anything in a browser, and it'd be a bigger pain in the *** than just installing apache. you can't run a webserver without a webserver, which is basically what you want to do.
p.s. get Apache
jammin posted this at 23:03 — 1st April 2003.
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you keep saying get apache but that is where the problem is, all of the packs that i have installed have used apache, its hard to find one that doesnt have apache, and im fairly sure it is apache that is giving me the problem.
it works now, it was just a stupid problem.
anyone can do any amount of work provided it isnt the work they are supposed to be doing.
ROB posted this at 23:35 — 1st April 2003.
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oh ok, i thought you were still trying to get php to work with PWS or IIS
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