I'm new to creating and hosting websites, and I've run into a few technical issues so far that are irritating me.

I've been using an older version of Dreamweaver (version 8.02) that I've had on my computer for a while now, and I was going through the tutorials to re-acquaint myself with web design. Anyways, one of the topics was publishing a website, and it mentioned that I would have to have IIS installed so that I could continue and create a remote web server. I thought I already had it installed, having a C:\Inetpub directory, but... I dunno, making a test page under the directory wasn't working at all.

So, I tried to re-install IIS (control panel -> add/remove programs -> add/remove windows components -> check IIS -> click next), and it seemed to be going okay for a few minutes, but then I got an error message saying staxmem.dll couldn't be found.

The weird thing is that the .dll file is definitely in the specified folder - I even re-downloaded the .dll to see if I continue the installation, but to no avail. I have no clue what to do to fix it, although I took a screenshot of everything:



*shrug*

Also, since Dreamweaver doesn't really go in-depth and Google doesn't seem to want to help much: what exactly does a remote web server do? Is it essential if I want to upload the pages to a domain (at least, I think that's what you call www.<website>.com...) that I plan on buying in the future?

Thanks!

What you are going to have to do is download the Windows XP SP2 redistributable package at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en and then extract the contents of the executable by running it from a command line with -x as the command line switch.

Once extracted do the install of IIS again and when it asks for this file, point to the folder you extracted the download from.


I run into this kind of annoying thing every once in a while at work...has to do with how you updated your XP to SP2 or beyond. Slipstreamed vs download executable vs Windows Update...did you start with SP1 and move to SP2 or did you start right at SP2 blah blah...

Thanks a lot! When you say "running it from a command line with -x as the command line switch," though, what exactly do you mean? I'm familiar enough with going to start -> run, and occasionally typing in some commands there, but I'm a bit hapless after that.

When you download the file save it to the root of your C:\ drive then type into Start - Run C:\WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe -x

Honestly I wouldn't bother setting up a local webserver with IIS for a few reasons. IIS on XP Pro is extremely exploitable with default settings. It's not suitable to host a public web page. It should only be used for testing purposes, but web servers are not an easy thing to configure properly so, as a novice, you're probably better off just doing your testing on a remote server.

And whatever you do...DO NOT use the IIS machine as your poker machine.