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dudleyboy

Hello there, I'm hoping someone will be able to help me out.

I'm currently studying an MSc in Computer Science and will soon be developing a web application using the aforementioned technologies.

Is anyone able to recommend a good (preferably) free / cheap web host where I can test and deploy my application?

Many thanks,

DB

U've_been_framed

If you have windows xp pro you can set it up on your own pc.
1. Place the Windows XP Professional CD-Rom into your CD-Rom Drive.

2. Open 'Add/Remove Windows Components' found in 'Add/Remove Programs' in the 'Control Panel'.

3. Place a tick in the check box for 'Internet Information Services (IIS)' leaving all the default installation settings intact.

4. Once IIS is installed on your machine you can view your home page in a web browser by typing 'http://localhost' (you can substitute 'localhost' for the name of your computer) into the address bar of your web browser. If you have not placed your web site into the default directory you should now be looking at the IIS documentation.

5. If you are not sure of the name of your computer right-click on the 'My Computer' icon on your desktop, select 'Properties' from the shortcut menu, and click on the 'Computer Name' tab.

6. Your default web directory to place your web site in is 'C:\Inetpub\wwwroot', but if you don't want to over write the IIS documentation found in this directory you can set up your own virtual directory through the 'Internet Information Services' console.

dudleyboy

Thanks for the reply and info.

Unfortunately I've only got XP Home. Also, I was hoping to have it hosted so that my supervisor could access it too.

I've found this site which looks affordable - http://www.2020media.com/ - but if anyone else can recommend a cheaper (or free!) alternative I'd be grateful to hear about it.

Cheers,

DB

everythingblogcast

I think there is a hack to get IIS to run on XP Home, just google it but it breaks the EULA and could ruid your system, try http://www.wampserver.com/en/ or http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xampp.