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    Hi Dev's

     

    I post this on the WHS community forum and was told i should get a better response here, so here goes....

     

    I am thinking of getting a WHS, apart from all the media storage/sharing and accessing them from anywhere in the world.

    Is it possible to host web applications on this server? Specifically i'd like to know if i can host my asp.net apps?

    Also does WHS come with IIS?

     

    If anyone can help, that would be cool!

     

    Thanks

    Monday, August 4, 2008 9:03 AM

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    Yes, WHS does come with IIS. You may want to search these forums though on asp.net. And, you may want to google for whs and asp.net, there is a website devoted to this, with instructions. Just going from memory, some folks have been successful, some folks have found the whs IIS a bit, ummm , temperamental. May be a hardware resource thing, maybe.

    Ben
    Monday, August 4, 2008 5:04 PM

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    Yes, WHS does come with IIS. You may want to search these forums though on asp.net. And, you may want to google for whs and asp.net, there is a website devoted to this, with instructions. Just going from memory, some folks have been successful, some folks have found the whs IIS a bit, ummm , temperamental. May be a hardware resource thing, maybe.

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    Monday, August 4, 2008 5:04 PM
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    Thanks Ben for your reply.

     

    If anyone reading this is not aware of the 'website' Ben is referring to its

     

    http://whswebsite.googlepages.com/

     

    A great resource!

     

    Tuesday, August 5, 2008 9:02 AM
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    Hi Guys-

     

    I am one of the two authors of the tutorials found on http://whswebsite.googlepages.com/.

     

    IIS isn't so much temperamental as it is sort of unintuitive.  And when you drill down, most folks aren't having problems with the IIS itself but rather the issues most often seems to be the SQL database connections.  The problem seems to be that some of the big picture rules that we all grew up with don't apply to SQL connections.  For example; everywhere else in the world of PC's a file named MyFile stored in two different directories is a different file, right?  No so in the world of SQL databases.

     

    In any case, both Fastphoto and I are still answering emails and so for we are batting 1000.  Of those who've contacted us via email (at the bottom of the website page) each and every one now has a very nice little dynamic website of their very own.

     

    ttoomm

    Wednesday, August 27, 2008 5:03 PM