Internal webserver for Expression Web?
Walter R.
site as a built it and as it appears on the Web, I used the IIS server that
can be installed in Frontpage as part of Win XP (I don't remember which).
Now I am switching to Expression Web. Where can I get an internal webserver
to go with Expression Web? Do I need one? Will the IIS from Windows XP SP3
work with Expression Web?
Thanks
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Michael
The IIS server with XP SP3 will work for .Net and ASP. If you are doing PHP
you will have to make some changes to accommodate PHP.
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Cheryl D Wise
ASP.NET or PHP pages you can use that. Otherwise you can set a custom url to
use IIS on your local machine (including IIS 5 that comes with XP Pro for
classic asp pages or any others you need.)
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Gregory A. Beamer
> I have been using Frontpage 2003 to design my website. In order to
> view my site as a built it and as it appears on the Web, I used the
> IIS server that can be installed in Frontpage as part of Win XP (I
> don't remember which).
EW ships with the ASP.NET internal server, which is enough to preview
sites. If you wish, you can install IIS on your box, as long as you have
at least a Home Premium edition (Vista or Win 7) or a Professional
edition (XP). You will have to go to windows features and add the web
server, if you want to go this route; it is not necessary for
development, however, as the .NET Framework installs a web server.
NOTE: There is a caveat. The built in server serves HTML and ASP.NET. If
you go to PHP, Ruby on Rails, etc, you will have to install IIS locally
or some other open source server (Apache?). With Win 7 this is not
completely true, as there is PHP support (optional install).
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> "Walter R." <w...@example.com> wrote in
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>
>> I have been using Frontpage 2003 to design my website. In order to
>> view my site as a built it and as it appears on the Web, I used the
>> IIS server that can be installed in Frontpage as part of Win XP (I
>> don't remember which).
>
> EW ships with the ASP.NET internal server, which is enough to preview
> sites. If you wish, you can install IIS on your box, as long as you have
> at least a Home Premium edition (Vista or Win 7) or a Professional
> edition (XP). You will have to go to windows features and add the web
> server, if you want to go this route; it is not necessary for
> development, however, as the .NET Framework installs a web server.
>
> NOTE: There is a caveat. The built in server serves HTML and ASP.NET. If
> you go to PHP, Ruby on Rails, etc, you will have to install IIS locally
> or some other open source server (Apache?). With Win 7 this is not
> completely true, as there is PHP support (optional install).
>
I could have sworn I just got my EW v2 internal server to display a Php test
page correctly.
Ummm, starting on page 653 in Chesires EW 2 book details how to setup the
internal server to use Php...
Assuming you have Php already installed:
".... 1. Select Site, Site Settings to open the dialog.
2. Click the Preview Tab
3. Make sure the "Preview Using Web Site URL button and the Use Microsoft
Development Server check boxes are selected.
4. If you have not configured the Php CGI executable path in the
Applications Settings dialog, or if you want to use a different version for
this Web site, select the Use a Php Executable for Only this Web Site
option.
5. If necessary, enter the path to your PHP Cgi executable or browse to it.
It will be c:\Php\phi-info.exe if it was installed using the instructions in
the previous section.
6. Click the Preview in Browser button. The page should be parse by the PHP
program, as shown in Figure 35.8..."
I think I got that right. At least the Php page did display a "hello world"
string using code that would have not worked in JavaScript or in straight
html.
Respectfully,
Tom
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> I think I got that right. At least the Php page did display a "hello
> world" string using code that would have not worked in JavaScript or
> in straight html.
Two thumbs up! Jim should know better than I. Chris (Hanscom, aka Veign)
should know even better with his heavy PHP experience.
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at. You can find him over on the EW forum.
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> Chris no longer posts on this newsgroups since he got tired of being
> swiped at. You can find him over on the EW forum.
Did not realize there was a lot of swiping going on forcing people to leave
this group.