Pws

running it on winxp

[mack]

Has anyone has any joy in installing either IIS or pws on windows XP home edition. I used to use PWS a lot on my win98 machine and would like to be able to install it on winxp so that I can run perl scripts ect before uploading to ISP.

any tips gratefully received.

[justa]

Hi Mack,

I did a quick search and came up with this [15seconds.com]

Let me know if it's helpful.

[mack]

Thanks Justa...

I took a look and it involved altering a lot of windows files. Scary though for someone like me with little or no programing knowledge. also XP home didnt come with a cd rom so I
dont have a backup for when things go wrong.

[skibum]

Both Win ME and XP Home lack this basic functionality though there are work arounds for it.

It seems the best way around this is to Stick with Win 98, go with Win2k, or get XP Pro which has IIS.

Tough to swallow the $200.00 price tag of an XP or 2k (you have to buy the FULL version of 2K to go from ME to 2K I think - $300.00) but better than not having the functionality.

[mack]

I decided on a new outlook...Fixed my old win98 system...Networked it with my new xp machine...use the win98 box almost as a server...Not quite the solution I was looking at but will work never the less.

:)