On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:39:27 -0500, "gb" <none@none.com> wrote:

Try Apache.

Matt

I am trying to develop websites locally before I send them to the web
server. I use Personal Web Server on my Win-2000 box and it works fine. On
another machine with winXP I discovered that PWS is no longer used, and it's
been replaced by IIS (Internet Information Services).

I have been wrestling with this dog for days. After hours I finally got it
to serve up pages like a web server. However, 2 or 3 times now, it's done
this crazy thing where all of the sudden it stops working. I didn't make
any changes to any IIS settings. All I did was leave the computer in sleep
mode for a while, or maybe connect to an online "network client" service
that I use for work.

I checked IIS and the site I'm trying to develop is still set up as the
default website and nothing has changed. But when I go to
http://computername I get "cannot find web server or DNS error"

I tried turning IIS off and back on. I get the same error whether it's
running or not.

This happened a couple days ago and I just kept wrestling with it,
rebooting, etc, until it mysteriously started working again, without me
actually making any changes to the settings.

Is this a common problem? Is IIS buggy? Is there another option I can use
to create a virtual web server on my machine? It seems like IIS has a lot
of featuers that I don't need. I just need to be able to look at my
websites on my local computer while I'm developing them. I use a lot of
scripting, SSI, etc, so I need virtual web server; I can't just open the
file in my browser or the scripts don't run.

Any ideas on how to get better reliability, or is there another (freeware)
program I can use that works better?

thanks
gary in vermont

"gb" <none@none.com> wrote in message
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You could check out www.iisfaq.com for tips on making sure its set up
properly and troubleshooting issues you are having.

Fleeing from the madness of the jungle
gb <none@none.com> stumbled into news:alt.www.webmaster
and said:

Same thing really - a different management interface comes with the new
version and of course one is the personal version of IIS-5, the other IIS-6

which? 5 or 6?

are we talking about the 'web server' or your workstation?

Have you checked this is not a networking issue? for example, can you
ping the machine?

ok - assuming it is an IIS fault - does a reboot 'fix' the problem?

ahh - it's begining to feel like a network prob.

All software has bugs - you can laugh at anyone who tries to sell a
different story. For my part, I've only once ever seen 'invisible IIS' -
a last resort reboot cleared whatever was causing the problem and IIS has
continued running trouble-free for over a year since on that box.

apache

so does apache

does any of your scripting rely on IIS?

well first you'd be best advised to establish where the error lies. no
point installing another web server if there's a network problem.

--
William Tasso

whither a trophy?

gb wrote:
It's not been replaced - PWS was a cut down version of IIS that could
be installed for free. IIS is built into all versions of Windows (XP
onwards).

Firewalls can cause IIS to choke. You need to check your system logs.

Does it also fail with http://localhost/ or http://127.0.0.1 ?

It's not a common problem. IIS is rock solid usually.

What kind of scripts? What language are you coding in?

Depends. IIS is the only one that will run ASP scripts.

You need to be clearer about what you are trying to do before anyone
can really help you.