IIS 5 and 6

Hello,

I had IIS 5 installed on my machine and it was working fine. Then one
day it simply stopped working.

When I would use http://localhost/myapp which worked it would say it
could not find the server.

At the time I never messed with it because i wasn't doing any web
development locally on my machine.

Now I have Visual Studio 2003 and I need to develop a web app and
start learning asp.net. The problem, of course is my iis 5. It's a
dev machine on XP so I can't install IIS 6. I just need to IIS 5 to
work again.

So in an effort to fix the problem, I uninstalled IIS 5 and
reinstalled it. Strangely it can't start the "service in a timely
fashion." I've looked at the services installed and it's not
installing the Word Wide Web publishing service (if that matters).

So for now I've been racking my brain, combing the internet for a
solution only to have no success at all.

When I run the IIS 5 MMC snap in - it doesn't even show my computer's
name. So I am stuck.

The other idea I had is to use the IIS 6 server to by my web server
but I am not sure how to set that up so VISUAL studio 2003 would allow
my to write asp.net apps.

Please Help

On Jan 8, 1:35 pm, bitslayer <kevintemp... RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I had IIS 5 installed on my machine and it was working fine.  Then one
> day it simply stopped working.
>
> When I would usehttp://localhost/myappwhich worked it would say it
> could not find the server.
>
> At the time I never messed with it because i wasn't doing any web
> development locally on my machine.
>
> Now I have Visual Studio 2003 and I need to develop a web app and
> start learning asp.net.  The problem, of course is my iis 5.  It's a
> dev machine on XP so I can't install IIS 6.  I just need to IIS 5 to
> work again.
>
> So in an effort to fix the problem, I uninstalled IIS 5 and
> reinstalled it.  Strangely it can't start the "service in a timely
> fashion."  I've looked at the services installed and it's not
> installing the Word Wide Web publishing service (if that matters).
>
> So for now I've been racking my brain, combing the internet for a
> solution only to have no success at all.
>
> When I run the IIS 5 MMC snap in - it doesn't even show my computer's
> name.  So I am stuck.
>
> The other idea I had is to use the IIS 6 server to by my web server
> but I am not sure how to set that up so VISUAL studio 2003 would allow
> my to write asp.net apps.
>
> Please Help




Visual Studio has full documentation on how to set it up as a remote
server for development of ASP.Net application.

My read on your issue is that you had some network name issue in the
past, and now you have some Personal Security software blocking IIS
from functioning on XP Pro. You can either fight that battle, or try
my suggestion below...

Personally, if I was trying to learn ASP.Net and write a Web App, I
would use Visual Web Developer 2005 or 2008 -- freely available from
microsoft.com, comes with its own debug web "server" and integrated
with everything -- so everything just works out of the box. Easy and
excellent Development experience.

http://www.microsoft.com/express/vwd/

When you see how easy ASP.Net+Ajax allows you to craft the UI by drag-
and-drop, write code behind to handle events, and data bind to MSDE...
you will never try anything else again. It's like Visual Basic for the
Web (heck, you can even write in Visual Basic .NET, but I would
suggest learning C#). And we haven't even talked about Master Pages to
organize UI across pages of the web app, Form-based user login, custom
authorization, page skinning... you get all that for free from ASP.Net
2.0.

So, jump on with ASP.Net 2.0. Don't bother with Visual Studio 2003 --
ancient by today's standards.


//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
//