258 Setup for Sample ASP.NET Site
Checking for a web server
To develop and test dynamic web pages, you need a web server. A web
server is software that serves web pages in response to requests from web
browsers.
ASP.NET pages work with only one web server: Microsoft IIS 5 or later.
IIS 5 is a service of the Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional
operating systems, so you can use these two versions of Windows to run
ASP.NET applications.
Make sure IIS 5 is installed and running on a computer running Windows
2000 or Windows XP Professional. You can use your local computer as the
server if you have Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional.
A quick way to check whether IIS is installed on a computer is to look at
the folder structure to see whether it contains a C:\Inetpub or D:\Inetpub
folder. IIS creates this folder during installation.
If IIS is not installed, install it now. For more information, see
“Installing
Internet Information Server” on page 232
.
After installing the web server, install the .NET Framework.
Installing the .NET Framework
To process dynamic web pages, you need an application server. An
application server is software that helps a web server process web pages
containing server-side scripts or tags. When such a page is requested by a
browser, the web server hands the page off to the application server for
processing before sending the page to the browser. For more information,
see
“Understanding Web Applications” on page 217
.
In ASP.NET, the application server is called the Microsoft .NET
Framework 1.1. To develop ASP.NET web applications, you also need to
install the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Software Development Kit
(SDK). Make sure both the Framework and the SDK is installed and
running on a Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional system running
IIS 5 or higher.
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