XP IIS Hosting

aFlabbyPanda

Is anyone else hosting a site with XP & IIS? I've got it installed and it responds to http://localhost but it will not respond to the domain name ie briang.org

I had this running up to yesterday with windows 2003 but had to change back to xp as some of my video editing apps wouldnt run under 2k3.

I've disabled the firewall (both xp & the router) I've added it to a DMZ and that did nothing either.

Anyone had the same thing?

MunsterCycling

XP firewall will still block even when its turned off, just enable it (much safer) and open port 80, come to think of it do same to router firewall and port forward to the XP IIS machine.

aFlabbyPanda

thats already done. I had this working yesterday with win2k3 on the same hardware. I'm 100% that the router is right. Its something on the XP side and I cant find it. AARRRGGGHHH

seamus

IIS on Windows XP is limited. It will only support one domain name/website. Unlike IIS on Windows Server which will host multiple sites on the one server.

What's the exact error that you're getting? 404, Host not found, connection timeout, etc.

optiplexgx270

i have to have iis set to my pc's ip address not all unassigned in order for it to work.

rogue-entity

Unless you have a specific reason to use IIS I would suggest you go with Apache. Apache is far more powerful and flexable than IIS and will run quite fine on Win32. And come to think of it, you can run ASP and ASP.net under Apache on Windows too.

Oh, and if you use Apache, you can also take advantage of the powerful PHP language too.

seamus

rogue-entity wrote:

Oh, and if you use Apache, you can also take advantage of the powerful PHP language too.

PHP works just fine with IIS.

I would recommend getting to know both of them. Apache is more powerful, but IIS is that little bit easier to configure, particularly for virtual servers.

aFlabbyPanda

thanks for all the posts but in the end I just built a second win2k3 box to host the sites and its working fine now. couldnt figure it out at all.