Windows XP Professional is only able to run one website at a time. If you’re developing in a multisite environment it is practically impossible when one site depends on another. Using Multisite you can extend IIS to run as many websites as you need. We can debate all we like whether or not Windows XP Pro should be able to handle more than one website at once but since it doesn’t this tool is very handy.
Multisite is an ISAPI filter that intercepts requests then looks at the host header and redirects the request to the appropriate place on your on your filesystem. Oh, and the filter is FREE!
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Thanks for the tip. I do have Apache and it works great for multiple sites. Unfortunately, most of my clients require us to use ASP and ASP.NET, which requires us to run IIS.
Yep, I’ve got a few of those too :-/
I ran across a great quote the other day:
At this point, anyone proposing to run Windows on servers should be prepared to explain what they know about servers that Google, Yahoo, and Amazon don’t.
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