RE: Running IIS locally - advice?

From: Anders Blockmar (anders@EXICOM.SE)
Date: 10/03/01 

Message-ID: <51BBF03DCE32D111841800600857DA03443B3D@lima.exicom.se>
From: Anders Blockmar <anders@EXICOM.SE>
To: "'wim.remes'" <wim.remes@skynet.be>
Subject: RE: Running IIS locally - advice?
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 09:30:16 +0200

You might trie a more unconventional solution. Install Apache on the
laptops. If it is going to be used for local access only the apache
installation has a much smaller footprint and can be configured to listen to
127.0.0.1 only. The ASP compatibility can be provided by eg. Sun Chilisofts
ASP (suppot Apache on NT/2000) or any other free ASP replcement (There is at
least a few but I don't know if they run on Windows)

Hope this helps. And that you understand be despite of my spelling (or lack
of)

regards

Anders Blockmar

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wim.remes [mailto:wim.remes@skynet.be]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 8:25 AM
> To: dayseizer@excite.com; focus-ms
> Subject: RE: Running IIS locally - advice?
>
>
> The IIS Licenses only will make you live on water & bread for a
> considerable amount of time ... If the developer knew that this app
> was to be used by mobile users, why did he/she use ASP ?????
> I'd go for a VPN solution (ca. $5000 for a Watchguard
> firewall/vpn server)
> and have them dial-in to your network.
> You might be able to create an Access database, that you can
> fill up through
> an XML interface ...
> In the regard that it is an app that's used for use with
> clients, why not
> create a secure website that the sales guys/gals can access
> from any internet
> connection ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> W
>
> >===== Original Message From dayseizer@excite.com =====
> >I have an asp (Active Server Pages) application that I have to deploy
> >locally to laptops. The thought process was, let's people
> used to seeing
> >this app in their web browser, even though they're
> disconnected. Then it's
> >available on the intranet, no learning curve.
> >
> >Problem is, now I'm faced with a couple thousand new IIS web servers
> >(whether they like to admit it or not). Worse off, people
> are going to take
> >these home and plug them into God knows what network. I'm
> starting to make
> >list of things I want installed, disabled, etc, on these
> laptops. I have
> >some questions about some of the things on my list:
> >
> >1) Configure the web site to only be acessible from
> 127.0.0.1 Can this
> >address be spoofed on a w2k machine?
> >
> >2) Install a personal Firewall, block everything incoming. Will this
> >interfere with requests to the Loopback interface?
> >
> >Does anyone know of any products that will run asp pages
> sans IIS/PWS? I
> >know I have to point the browser "someplace." I'm wondering
> if there's a
> >creative solution that doesn't require my workstations
> listening for http
> >requests at all.
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >-dazed
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >_______________________________________________________
> >http://inbox.excite.com
>
>

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