IIS Requirement

JackWolfgang · Post by **JackWolfgang** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:02 am

The company I work for uses VSS for Source Control, and I was thinking about installing a Source Control product at home for personal projects.

I found Vault, and the UI looks very similar to VSS. Also, a free version is available for single user install. Finally, AxoSoft offers a SCM Ingegration with vault. This has me very interested in Vault.

However, the Requirements page state that IIS is required to install Vault. Is this true? I only want access to vault on my home network, and I don't need the web interface. Can I install Vault without IIS and use it just in a client/server mode without the web features?

Post by **jclausius** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:25 pm

To use Vault, there are two components. A Vault Server and one of the many Vault clients.

The Vault Server is a .Net Web Service based service - all of Vault's services to access the repository are exposed through IIS. So IIS is a requirement for the Server (and the client cannot operate without the server).

In a single user environment this will require IIS in Windows XP or IIS for one of the Windows Server based operating Systems.