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by mteal

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Is there an easy way to set up offline webpages on a network consisting mainly of Windows NT Workstation, with a few W95/W98 machines thrown in?

The windows 98 users can make local copies of websites. I've been asked to look at ways of having 2 or 3 sites stored locally so that all users can get access to them locally.

If possible, to extend the request, they'd like us to be able to 'archive' perhaps weekly so that they can go back to several older 'versions' of the pages.

As you probably guessed - a free or very cheap solution would be preferred!

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by deetee2000

You've probably looked at this already...

Why don't you use Personal Web Server (IIS's little brother) on the machines which will store/host these sites? I assume you're describing some sort of Intranet situation where only employees can access these pages and no one else. PWS is on the Win98 CDS and NT4 Option Pack(I think). Once installed you just put the pages in C:\inetpub\wwwroot, set up a default page or virtual directory then other people on the network can access your page(s) by typing http://machine_name into their browser, et voila!
Hope this helps.
D.

by mteal

Thanks very much - you make a very good point! I'll give that a go - I can't see why it shouldn't work.

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