Windows Personal Web Server
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The Windows Personal Web Server (also known as WPWS) is personal web server software offered by Microsoft for the Windows operating system. PWS was only supported on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, and Windows NT 4.0. It has fewer features than Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS).
PWS was a free download before Windows 2000, when it was replaced by IIS and included on the CD of the Operating System. Note that there is no version of PWS or IIS that is supported on Windows XP Home.
From a programmer's point of view, PWS is useful in developing Web applications, on a localhost, before deployment to a test or production Web server.
FTP, SMTP and HTTP are supported. A programmer can set up virtual directories and root them on an actual file system, before deployment. The usual web languages are supported, such as Perl, PHP, and ASP. It is possible to test database connections to a database server for a web application server with this setup, as well.
PWS was superseded by IIS after the general deployment of Windows 2000 (NT 5.0).
