IIS Troubles on WinXPpro

anybody willing to help?

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I just upgraded my home system from WinME to WinXPpro - I was able to get PWS working on my old system, so I could do some simple web development. However, now that I have IIS, I am completely at a loss on how to get IIS working. I only want to do local web development with ASP. I will upload the files to my wife's school web site when they are working. But I want to develop them locally.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can make it work?

As far as a history. I did the whole IIS Install process. I was initially getting a different error message because I had a "global.asa" file that was specific to PWS. Once I removed that file, I was able to pull up content locally. I thought everything was good. But the very next day I turn on my PC, and nothing works. It has been over a week now of searching for knowledge on the internet, but everything seems to be way to technical for my situation. I just need a little hand-holding to get this silly thing working again.

Is anyone up to that challenge? Please?!?!?!? I'm desperate here.

Thanks anyway - Einy.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
When you say that "nothing works" do you mean that your PC is not working at all, or that nothing related to IIS is working?

Also, was your XP upgrade a clean install of XP, or was is an upgrade that installed on top of ME? Those type of upgrades were notoriously unstable (not much else to expect when building on top of ME.)
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Um - I am an idiot - I must have just messed with too much stuff to begin with. I got IIS working but just "Uninstalling and re-installing" I kept all the defaults and bingo!

Sorry to jump to posting in the forums, but I was just at wits end - however, I rarely accept the "uninstall / re-install" as a viable solution. But this time it worked for me.

Thanks again for your correct opinion of WinME - I can't believe I stuck with it for as long as I did.
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