this<\/a>, which gives the answer.\u00a0 I change the permissions on the home directory, add a user IUSR (why doesn’t IIS do this?) and another Everyone (ditto) and give both full control, and everything suddenly works.\u00a0 But I am now too frazzled to do what I originally had in mind.<\/p>\nA web server is the simplest of objects.\u00a0 All it does is listen on a port, and, when you ask for a .htm file, send it down the pipe.\u00a0 That’s it.\u00a0 That is the function that it performs 90% of the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All the rest is minority activity.\u00a0 We call these “edge cases”, in computing speak.\u00a0 90% of the user cases is “copy file to port”.\u00a0 The rest is used much less.<\/p>\n
Yet Microsoft have produced a piece of software that fought for half an hour with a highly technical user who simply want to serve up pages to himself on his own PC.\u00a0 WHY???\u00a0<\/p>\n
Of course the reason is obvious.\u00a0 The developers have added functionality, and added it, and added it and added it until the thing has become a monster.\u00a0 You could probably connect my PC to the web and run a full-fledged server on it now.\u00a0 But … I don’t want or need any of that.\u00a0 I just want to display some html and run some PHP scripts.\u00a0 Like most people do, most of the time, who start up a web server on their own PC.<\/p>\n
Microsoft are very prone to this problem; to lose the main user case in catering to edge cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Idiots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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