personal web server problem.

[Mhtml]

I can't view asp files even though I have pws installed. I download NT option pack 4.0 (31megs) from microsoft and It said that I have to be running NT to use it but Microsoft said it would run on 9x....AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!:mad: :mad: :mad:

Anyone else had this problem or know how to fix it?
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This is driving me up the wall....

[Roelf]

depends which windows and which pws version you have, i used to have windows 95 with pws 2 (i think) there was an extra program you had to install which gave pws asp-capabilities. If you like i can do some digging in old backup cd's to find the program, but you can also do a search on the web for it, i dont know the name of the program though

Maybe this link helps: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbegvb/html/howtosetuppwsonyourmachine.asp

[Mhtml]

:D I have sought have fixed the problem, I was try to just open the pages because http://localhost/page.asp was not working I have since found out that I can use http://127.0.0.1/page.asp which seems to work fine. Although localhost would work a lot better then 127.0.0.1. Oh well, It will do. Now all I have to worry about is learning asp;)

Thanks any way!:thumbsup:

[x_goose_x]

localhost is just an alias for 127.0.0.1 it should work as well.

[Mhtml]

It doesn't seem to, i have checked out the hosts.sam file it seems to be ok, but I don't realy know about that.

When I type in localhost it just sits a few minutes and return an error page. but 127.0.0.1 doesn't

[x_goose_x]

Try pinging localhost. It should return an ICMP packet from 127.0.0.1


Did you assign your website to an ip? Or did you set it to (All Unassigned)?

[Mhtml]

What's pinging? And the IP was assigned automatically.

[scroots]

is localhost your pc name, my PC name is oemcomputer so i have to type http://oemcomputer/ to access stuff through PWS.

scroots

[oracleguy]

The NT option pack can't work on anything but NT4. Especially not 9x. Where'd you read that it could?:confused:

[Mhtml]

My computer name is small I've tried http://small but it doesn't work.
I got the nt option pack 4 link from link i followed at microsoft. The original link was in the PWS documentation. Which sadi something about getting a home computer version...something that didn't make sense anyway.


This is what it said on default.asp:PWS has been optimized for interactive workstation use, and does not have the system requirements of Microsoft Internet Information Server. To get a copy of Personal Web Server for your desktop computer, visit http://backoffice.microsoft.com/downtrial/optionpack.asp So I followed that to find out about using asp on pws...then i found it did work but now my problem is the address.

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