# .net on apache - xp
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/net-on-apache-xp/56774
**Category:** random
**Created:** [July 7, 2004, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/net-on-apache-xp/56774 "2004-07-07T18:02:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/net-on-apache-xp/56774/1 "2004-07-07T18:02:53Z")
Sorry for making so many threads recently:
here’s my problem… I want to learn [asp.net](http://asp.net) and c# stuff as my dad’s friend told me to do, so that I can grauduate 😃 from php and go to a language that’s more advanced. But, I want to right both stand-alone applications (and compile with a free complier) and run .net applications with apache on a xp home machine.
Is this possible, I’ve been searching google for hours looking for a solution but so far I don’t think it’s possible
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 6:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/net-on-apache-xp/56774/2 "2004-07-07T18:05:54Z")
and might I ask, what is the best free compiler?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/net-on-apache-xp/56774/3 "2004-07-07T18:09:20Z")
A good programm that is free for typing up you C is DEV-C++ or a programm that i use wich I though was free also is Borland C++
For [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) wich i rarely get to these days i just use Dreamweaver maybe not the best programm but it works for me. 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/net-on-apache-xp/56774/4 "2004-07-07T18:10:24Z")
yeah but dreamweaver doesn’t compile, does borland compile c# and [asp.net](http://asp.net)?
I’m utterly confused
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/net-on-apache-xp/56774/5 "2004-07-07T18:19:22Z")
is this even possible?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/net-on-apache-xp/56774/6 "2004-07-07T18:25:44Z")
Ok
Dreamweaver can’t compile. It’s a Syntax highlighter.
There is a big differcene between C++, C and [C++.net](http://C++.net), C#
Don’t know much about ASP.
If you what to learn things free I would stay with just C or C++ and not [C++.net](http://C++.net) and C# because thay are from M$. And we all know that M$ dosen’t do anything for free. 😛
As for borland, don’t know much there neither
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/net-on-apache-xp/56774/7 "2004-07-07T19:06:20Z")
hm… I know there is a big difference between c languages, I think there is a relation between c# and .net though, but nobody has answered my main question, is there any module for apache 2.0.50 that will parse asp pages? if so does this also work with .net
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/net-on-apache-xp/56774/8 "2004-07-07T19:15:16Z")
I guess you can’t parse asp on apache and need iis?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/net-on-apache-xp/56774/9 "2004-07-07T19:25:20Z")
go to asp.net - it should have pretty much everything you need. For an [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) IDE use Web Matrix.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/net-on-apache-xp/56774/10 "2004-07-07T20:32:05Z")
I don’t think you can use that with apache though can you? Is there anything like mod\_mono for windows?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/net-on-apache-xp/56774/11 "2004-07-07T20:44:01Z")
Web Matrix is just a dev tool for [asp.net](http://asp.net) - for windows forms apps Eclipse is a free one that might work for ya(I’ve never used it, I have Visual Studio 2003)
Why do you have to use apache?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/net-on-apache-xp/56774/12 "2004-07-07T20:46:47Z")
because I’m on xp home and host my site on it, I don’t want to use iis (and don’t think I can) so apache is pretty much the only option if I’m also going to use php and mysql and other stuff like that