Running ASP.NET v1.1 on Windows XP Home
At work, i was given a laptop with Windows XP Home as I am travelling for a few weeks. It had a lot of crap software installed and was very slow, so I [in typical geek fashion] I formatted it and reinstalled a fresh version Windows XP Home. There was no problem getting Visual Studio 6, Sql Server 2000 etc. to work on Windows XP Home but I realised that there was no IIS and I may have to run Gemini [bug tracking system built on ASP.NET] in some other way.
To cut the story short, this is what i did :-
a) copied the wwwroot folder from my Windows 2000 Pro system.
b) Created a short cut to the ASP.NET WebMatrix WebServer :-
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft ASP.NET Web Matrix\v0.6.812\WebServer.exe" /port:80 /path:"c:\wwwroot\gemini" /vpath:"/gemini"
c) Started the WebServer
d) Open IE and typed http://localhost/Gemini
and voila!! it worked!!
So far, everything has been working fine, I am able to view my bugs in Gemini again :-), Long live the spirit of WebMatrix!!