IIS and Apache in the same machine

[tntpower]

Hi folks,

I am developing a website for our lab. Our lab's website is hosted on the department's server, a Windows 2000 server, running iis 5. There are several other websites hosted on that machine, too.

I want to use Apache as web server. But is impossible to turnoff IIS and install Apache because other sites are using ASP technology. I am think is it possible to have IIS and Apache work together in the same machine?

We have an independent & fixed IP for our website.

I know I can simply have Apache listen to other ports but that is not a good idea since I do not want a URL like [ourserver:123....]

Additionally, I do not want a URL-to-IP forward. That is, when vistors go to mysite.com, I do not want to simply redirect them to an IP address like, 111.111.111.111. If redirect is required, then I want to cloak/mask the IP so that vistors ( and search engines )do not aware the redirect at all: they still think they are visiting the URL, instead of the IP.

How can I do that without making troubles to other websites?

Thanks

[jdMorgan]

The simplest answer may be to go find an old junk computer, and install Apache on it. You'll get acceptable performance from anything past the Pentium II 400MHz level. Ask around -- There are a lot of old PCs sitting in closets gathering dust that would work fine as low-traffic Apache servers.

Jim

[tntpower]

Another machine? It's not a good idea :)