PWS or ISS Question

[ssVBAdev]

I have a series of HTML documents that are located on a file server that people in my office can open in IE through a "default" page; a "Intranet" of sorts. I would like to be able to have more capabilites than a simple HTML document (with JavaScript and VBS) can provide. I would like to be able to create (I think this is the extension) .asp pages.
I understand that enabling the PWS or ISS will be able to do that for me but I'm curious as to who would then have access to this site. I don't want it to be available to the WWW. I'm also in a branch office behind a corporate firewall. Will the site be accessible by the entire corporation or just my local domain in my office?

Any knowledge that can be provided would be appreciated.

 

[grtfercho]

For people in your office they will be able to use the name of your computer possing as a server.
For people outside your office but whitin your company you'll have to provide them with the IP address. Please verify this with your LAN team.

PWS is for Win98. IIS is for win2K.
both basically have the same features but consider that both have a maximum connection setting of 10.
This means that if you have 11 connections try to access the pages then the 11th will have to wait until the server is available again. Overall the process gets slower and sometimes your clients get connection errors because the server doesn't provide the information back and fast as the client is expecting.

If you are allowed (check with your LAN team) probably you can install Apache and serve your pages that way.
If you really want to use ASP (with an Apache config) you'll have to download Chilisoft ( I think ) to run the .asp pages.

Your other option having Apache installed is either PHP or JSP.
You can find more information about Apache and how to run JSP on it (using Tomcat) if you go to the website

http://www.apache.org

and look for the Jakarta Project.

Sideline: Apache,PHP,Tomcat(to run JSP) all are free.


grtfercho çB^]\..
"Imagination is more important than Knowledge" A. Einstein

 

[ssVBAdev]

Well, There are only 9 people in my office who might use it at all and even then I highly doubt they would be view the "site" at the same time. I have both Win98 and W2K machines in my office but have not yet decided which will be the "host" server.
In this case wouldn't the PWS or IIS be sufficient?
And, just to re-iterate, the users within my domain (office) would be able to type the computer name into their IE address bars to view the page but others (say, within the company but outside of my domain) would require the I.P. address of the "host" machine?

 

[grtfercho]

you got it right..

grtfercho çB^]\..
"Imagination is more important than Knowledge" A. Einstein

 

[ssVBAdev]

Thanks for the info!

 

[Genimuse]

IIS only has a limit of 10 users under XP Pro. It has no such limit under 2K Pro.

 

[ssVBAdev]

Thanks for the info Genimuse.