Question about ASP?

[wilbasket23]

What is IIS? What does it stand for? When do we use it. I mean can ASP run in a local machine. Let say if my home computer install Window 2000 or Wind98 on it, can i run ASP script on it or not. Also, what is PWS. what does it used for. Also, what is the ChilliASP and InstantASP. Can you please help me. thanks

[aym]

Hi wilbasket23,
I can answer only some of your questions:
IIS is a web server developed by Microsoft, it comes with Win 2K and XP (not sure about other versions).
IIS stands for Internet Information Service.
Yes, if you have IIS installed, you can run ASP on a home machine, but first make sure that IIS comes with your version of Windows.

[wilbasket23]

hei how can we check if IIS is instlled in my machine, i currenlty have Window XP home edition in my computer how can i check if my machine if IIS installed

[setme31]

PWS = Personal web server. It is designed for coding on your machine. With PWS you don't have to upload your code to test it. I use it here at work to mess around with.

[jalbes]

Originally posted by wilbasket23 hei how can we check if IIS is instlled in my machine, i currenlty have Window XP home edition in my computer how can i check if my machine if IIS installed

IIS is not part of WinXP "Home Edition", it's only on WinXP "Pro Edition".

With that said, if you have WinXP Pro and you want to know if it is installed, then go to Control Panel, and click on add/remove programs, and look for it under "add/remove windows components."

I run IIS on my machine as I run a web site off of it that hosts forums (which is why I use IIS, for allowing use of ASP scripts) but beware that there are alot of security vulnerabilities with it. So be sure that you have a good firewall, and double check your permissions.

jalbes