>I am trying to come up with a way to create a VFP data service that will live equally well on workstations and servers.
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>With IIS, I can create a virtual directory or new web site, and have my VFP app or IE go to the server's .asp, which calls a COM object and data is returned. I can do the same with PWS, but PWS is very heavy (and makes too many workstation modifications) to put on all of the desktops I develop for.
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>Does anyone know of lightweight web servers that install cleanly on a workstation and support COM objects?
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>I'm going this route because I think it will let me create my COM data management stuff just one time, whether the user is working locally or not. I intend to make the "web" site run on an obscure port, etc so it's not really doing anything web-like at all, it'll just return HTML or XML when called.
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>Any thoughts?

If you need to be able to access your COM+/MTS components from desktop applications, you can do this by exporting the COM+/MTS packages to the desktop machines. This way your desktop apps will know what server your .dlls are on and the dlls do not have to be registered on every machine, only the exported packages.