- Hosting multiple domain Web Sites on Windows XP Pro
- Posted by Alex on October 16th, 2005
Hi,
Is it possible to host 2 web sites for two different companies on the same
Windows XP Pro SP1 box? I think it needs IIS 6 and the current version of my
Windows XP IIS is 5.x.
I tried Advanced Settings/ Domain Host but was not able to have 2 different
web sites each pointing to a different folder.
Thanks
Alex
- Posted by Shenan Stanley on October 16th, 2005
Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to host 2 web sites for two different companies on the
> same Windows XP Pro SP1 box? I think it needs IIS 6 and the current
> version of my Windows XP IIS is 5.x.
>
> I tried Advanced Settings/ Domain Host but was not able to have 2
> different web sites each pointing to a different folder.
You need a Web Server (Windows Server 2000/2003) if you want to have
different domain names AND use IIS.
Since you specify you "need IIS 6" - you will need Windows Server 2003 with
IIS installed.
Windows XP (Any Version) is a workstation OS and not designed for server
applications.
You could possibly install a third party web server onto Windows Xp and get
the result you are looking for.
--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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- Posted by NobodyMan on October 17th, 2005
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:27:00 -0500, "Shenan Stanley"
<newshelper@gmail.com> wrote:
>Alex wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to host 2 web sites for two different companies on the
>> same Windows XP Pro SP1 box? I think it needs IIS 6 and the current
>> version of my Windows XP IIS is 5.x.
>>
>> I tried Advanced Settings/ Domain Host but was not able to have 2
>> different web sites each pointing to a different folder.
>
>You need a Web Server (Windows Server 2000/2003) if you want to have
>different domain names AND use IIS.
>Since you specify you "need IIS 6" - you will need Windows Server 2003 with
>IIS installed.
>
>Windows XP (Any Version) is a workstation OS and not designed for server
>applications.
>
>You could possibly install a third party web server onto Windows Xp and get
>the result you are looking for.
>
>--
>Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
I'd argue against them getting the results they are looking for. With
the 10 concurrent connection limit in XP Pro, for the most part it is
completely the wrong OS to use to host websites.
