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Need IIS.dl_ and IIS.in_ to install IIS on XP Home

by ingo1978 Jul 13, 2007 7:59PM PDT

I need IIS.dl_ ISS.in_ from a windows 2000 CD or windows 2000 server CD, a trial CD will be find. They're in the I386. I have searched everywhere but cannot find them anywhere.

Please help

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Have you looked. . .
by Coryphaeus Jul 13, 2007 9:31PM PDT

for the complete file name?

ISS.dll
ISS.ini

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Don't do that
by jackson dougless Jul 14, 2007 12:35AM PDT

For one, I'm pretty sure it's against the license agreement of XP Home to install IIS on it. Even if it's not, IIS is probably the only program that is more dangerous to use than Internet Explorer.

If you need a web server, try something like Apache. It's free, runs on Windows, well documented, much more secure than IIS (not perfect, but nothing is), etc.

http://httpd.apache.org

You can also find combinations out there that come with Apache, MySQL, and PHP, ready to install and let you get cracking on a database driven website. More of a Ruby on Rails person myself, but to each their own, so long as it's not a highly insecure and dangerous program like IIS.

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need it for SQL server
by ingo1978 Jul 14, 2007 8:42AM PDT

I'm trying to install Microsoft SQL server and it requires IIS though.

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Don't do that either
by jackson dougless Jul 14, 2007 9:30AM PDT

SQL Server on XP Home is almost certainly also a license violation of SQL Server. I'm reasonably sure that SQL Server isn't to be installed on any non-server version of Windows.

If you need an SQL database server, you've got MySQL and PostgreSQL. Both should run fine on XP Home, and work quite nicely with Apache.

Put another way... If you can't afford a proper server system, you probably don't want to be messing with any of Microsoft's stuff.

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trail software
by ingo1978 Jul 15, 2007 6:19PM PDT

I'm just leaning it for work and have a 180 day trial I wanted to install at home to help mw.

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In that case...
by jackson dougless Jul 16, 2007 12:44AM PDT

Get a trial copy of Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2003 Server to install it on. And I'd strongly suggest not connecting that system to the Internet.

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