Peter J. Boettcher — Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:52:00 +0000

Kristen,

If your laptop can handle it, consider installing Windows NT. It doesn't need that much more power/memory than Win95. Then you can grab Option pack four which includes IIS4 and you're set!

PWS is a real buggy piece of software, I would recommend staying far away from this pooper. Plus you can't fully test an ASP environment unless you're running IIS since it's required for certain objects.

Regards,
Peter J. Boettcher

KLWong — Thu, 26 Oct 2000 22:37:13 +0000

Jim, as far as I can see from their site, the Herdsoft server doesn't do ASP -- I'm sure that would be a big selling point and it would be mentioned if it did.

Max, Could I run Apache/Chili!ASP on a slow, old Windows 95 IBM laptop? Seems like it would be more hassle than a straight Windows solution. I'm already almost out of hard disk space....

I think I'm really close to getting PWS working, if only I could find the fix for the "CoGetClassObject Server execution failed" installation error on Windows 95...lots of web stuff on fixing it on NT.

Keep the ideas coming...!

What about Apache?

Mark Hensler — Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:39:34 +0000

You can't forget about Apache! Don't ask me how, but my friend, the unix wiz at work, got apache on a unix box to run apache and somehow support ASP. I think he used a module or ChilASP or something.

Jim Shilt — Thu, 26 Oct 2000 19:16:48 +0000

Kristin,

I used to use PWS until I updated to IE5. PWS uses a winsock that is incompatable with the new 128 encription.

I now use HTTP_hs available at http://www.herdsoft.com

I don't know if it will do asp pages but it works really fast and well with SSI and cgi scripts

Hope this helps