Thursday, November 08, 2007

A hack to get IIS running on WIndows XP Home [?]

As per this from Microsoft;
Windows XP Home Edition does not include or support any versions (1.0, 2.0, 4.0) of Microsoft Personal Web Server (PWS). Users that need Web server functionality in a desktop operating system should use Windows XP Professional.
But, this says there is a workaround. Anyway I tried it, but did not worked fully - [may be prevented from a patch] - I could see the IIS appearing in the 'Windows Components' window - but could not selelect any.

[Update]
This works fine. You have to use IIS.DL_ and IIS.IN_ from Windows 2000 Server CD and also point to the same CD when ask for the CD. Earlier it didn't work for me, since I copied the above two files from a Windows XP Professional CD.

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