Where is IIS?

[lsman11]

Hello, I am trying to use ASP.NET and create webpages my friends can access from the outside... is there a way for me to download the latest IIS or does it only come with windows 2k3 server? Someone mentioned it may be included in windows xp, buti did not see it under add/remove windows components etc..


If i do need to use win 2k3 server, do i have to go the dual-boot method?

thanks in advance,

[odessa]

IIS for Windows XP is only available for the PRO version. Do you have Pro?

Also, the Pro version limits the site to 10 concurrent connections. You can tweak 40 concurrent connections out of it but that is it. Now, 40 is plenty small biz website or personal web but if you are going to expect some real traffic you will want to go with 2k3. Also, you can only run ONE website at a time on XP.

The cheapest 2k3 is the web edition which will give you what you need to run sites, one or multiple.

How can you increase the 10 concurrent connections to 40?
Set default windows script to "cscript.exe". Go to the command window and type: cscript //h:cscript

Next in command window type:
C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil set w3svc/MaxConnections 40

Done.

BTW, You can't go higher than 40 as it is the hard coded limit.

[lsman11]

great explanation, thanks very much

[tokenuser]

Hello, I am trying to use ASP.NET and create webpages my friends can access from the outside... is there a way for me to download the latest IIS or does it only come with windows 2k3 server? Someone mentioned it may be included in windows xp, buti did not see it under add/remove windows components etc..


If i do need to use win 2k3 server, do i have to go the dual-boot method?

thanks in advance,Another option (a little more complex, far more robust), is Apache plus the Mono mod (or Apache::ASP - but I don't think that implementation is as complete as Mono).