Hi, i've got dreamweaver MX and running windows XP "home edition" which doesn't include IIS 5.1.

I've also got the book "beginning Dreamweaver MX" but it uses IIS alot. is there somewhere i can download it as i'm so very new to all this?

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

if you want IIS you gotta have Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional, if you have win98 you can install Personal Web Server found at the Windows 98 Installation CD...

the genuine genius

hmm guess the windows 98 method won't work since i'm running xp home edition. Is there an alternative then to IIS so that i can have a vrtual drive for the webpage to be tested on the server??

John

First, I believe that WINXP Home does provide a limited version of IIS 5.0. You need to do the following:
     1. Go to the <CONTROL PANEL>
     2. Double-click <ADD REMOVE SOFTWARE>
     3. Select Windows Components
     4. Check the box next to Internet Information Server or IIS
     5. Apply the changes -- this installs the software

If this doesn't work I highly recommend getting a REAL web-server like Apache http://httpd.apache.org/. You should do this anyway.

Learning how to operate IIS is great, but it doesn't give you any other skills. If you learn to use the Apache web server now, then when ever you are confronted with an IIS machine you will be able to figure it out quickly. It doesn't work the other way around.


Best Regards,
Dan Jallits