PWS on Win9x (was Re: [Gllug] M$ Technet?)

[Wulf Forrester-Barker]

Actually, I think it is Personal Web Server, but you're right that it is a stripped down version of IIS. At home I use Win98 most of the time (yes, I know, boo, hiss, heretic... but I'm not yet ready to do away with all my Windows software and my attempts to install Win4Lin 3 were a dismal failure... ;-) with PWS. Some pages run with VBScript code and some with PHP (which I installed on Win98 after my Win4Lin attempts came to naught), and all in all it works pretty well.

I think it works pretty well on a machine used for personal development work, and switched off overnight. I wouldn't want to be using it for my day job but it doesn't do too badly. It probably would have made a big difference to me if I'd realised that I could run a webserver on my home machine a couple of years ago rather than just toying around with sites made up of static pages.

Wulf

>>> dean.wilson3 at virgin.net 31/07/2001 2:17:01 pm >>>
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 01:51:32PM +0100, Simon Furey wrote:
> No actually I think you'll find IIS needs the services supplied by NT or
> Win2K and can't run or be installed on the 95/98/Me O/s's and hence why as

The Win 9X series of OS's can have PWS (Peer web server) installed, which
is basicly IIS with a couple of bits missing. You can run PHP or MODPerl
with it so its semi funcational :)

It doesn't use services it runs as a process in a command window instead.



wulf.f-b at uhl.nhs.uk

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