Is there any way of using ASP on Windows XP Home edition, without upgrading
to the Pro edition?

The only thing I can think of is uploading it to a web server first, but
that seems way too annoying! Is there any alternatives to IIS or PWS?

Cheers
Dave

Not really.

If you have sufficient quantities of free time to learn it and don't mind not having real ASP support, you might consider Apache:

http://www.apache.org/

All in all, though, it would probably be much easier to go with the upgrade.

I read of a way to install IIS from the XP Pro CD into Home edition but not
sure where or if it's 'legal'.
A friend here has gone for a second old old machine networked up running PWS
on Win98

"Alex K. Angelopoulos" <alexangelopoulos_at_hotmail_dot_com_remove__> wrote

Not really.

If you have sufficient quantities of free time to learn it and don't mind
not having real ASP support, you might consider Apache:

http://www.apache.org/

All in all, though, it would probably be much easier to go with the upgrade.

I don't know about legal, but it sure isn't supported ;-)

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torgeir

Technically, I do believe you have rights to access down-level components on your system if you are licensed correctly.

For example, a standard enterprise or small business that buys channel-distributed Windows 2000 actually has rights to install any OS or part of an OS from earlier "down-level" operating systems as long as they are all on the same system (note -this does NOT cover dual boot I don't believe- just "you can have either Win2K or NT4 or Win9x and we won't scream if you run Winfile from NT4 on your W2K system").

Unfortunately, this does *not* cover non-upgrade OEM and pre-installed products.  Your deal is with the OEM usually and you only have single-version rights.