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please guide me to develop a intranet on a pentium 4 machine having windows xp as operating system

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Brief summary and practical plan (building on and ): an "intranet" is simply a web service on the LAN. With IIS already present on the XP machine, a small intranet for development or a few users can be hosted on that box. Decide first whether pages will be static HTML or a dynamic app (ASP/ASP.NET, PHP) and whether a database will be needed (SQLite, MySQL, SQL Server Express).

Checklist for a small LAN intranet on Windows XP + IIS:

  • Confirm Windows XP edition (IIS is available on XP Professional via Add/Remove Windows Components).
  • Assign a static LAN IP to the server and open TCP port 80 (and 443 for HTTPS) in the Windows Firewall/router NAT.
  • Place site files in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot or create a virtual directory in IIS; set NTFS read permissions for the web anonymous user (IUSR_<machine>) and write where uploads are required.
  • If using ASP.NET, install the appropriate .NET Framework and register it with IIS (run aspnet_regiis.exe -i from the matching Framework folder).
  • Have clients reach the server by IP or hostname; for quick testing add a hosts entry on clients, for example:
192.168.1.10 intranet.local
  • Test locally with http://localhost and from other machines with http://192.168.1.10.

Quick troubleshooting pointers:

  • Verify the World Wide Web Publishing Service is running and the site is started in IIS Manager.
  • Check default document names (default.htm, default.asp, default.aspx, index.html) and script mappings if server-side pages fail.
  • Use ping/telnet (port 80) from a client and review Event Viewer / IIS logs for errors.
  • File-permission problems are a very common cause — verify the IIS account can read (and write where needed) the site folder.

Cautions and next steps:

  • IIS on XP is suitable for testing or a very small LAN only; it lacks many production features and XP is unsupported for Internet-facing services. For multiuser/production intranets, use a proper server OS or a dedicated Linux/Windows server, add backups/version control, and secure the site (HTTPS, least-privilege accounts).

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I'm sorry, but we'll need much more detailed information on exactly what you are trying to accomplish. An intranet is an internal (private) network; it does not get developed on a single machine.

You need to state your question more clearly.

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please guide me to develop a intranet on a pentium 4 machine having windows xp as operating system

i have a lan and a system in which iis is installed and i want to develop an intranet in my lan please guid me for this

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