I have an XP Pro box at home. I have installed SP2. I, just this day,
installed IIS 5.1 in hopes of starting a website. IIS installed fine, but I
cannot open default.htm. index.asp, iisstart.asp or iishelp by using
http://localhost/filename

Everyone has permission to read on all files in INETPUB
Services are running for WWW and IIS Admin. Verified in the cmd window.
Ran NetStat and determined that port 80 is listening.
Went to another computer and I can ping my computer.
Ran Telnet from far computer and it saw my computer.
DNS resolves my address correctly.
REmoved and reinstalled IIS.
Applied ASP.net problem with adding IIS after .NET (aspnet_regiis –I) also
registered dll
I have turned off my XP firewall. And verified from services that it was
shut down.
I have turned off my McAfee firewall and verified it was shut down.
I have tried using 127.0.0.1, the NIC card address, the computer’s name,
It’s FQDN and localhost and nothing will display in IE.
I have also tried restarting XP Internet Firewall Services, enabling and
Checkmarking all entries under services tab except FTP.
I have a W2K server running IIS 5.0 and have compared settings and find no
difference except... The asterisk in front of the servername on my home
computer is missing.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,

Can you open a connection to port 80 on the IIS server using telnet
(substitute your own IP address below)

telnet>open 111.111.111.111 80

If not, then something's still blocking it. If you can, then the issue is
with IIS - I would start by checking the Event Logs on the IIS box.

Cheers
Ken



"ilgary" <ilgary [at] discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2AA8E742-9807-471C-9782-E3D7C4FDE1A6 [at] microsoft.com...
>I have an XP Pro box at home. I have installed SP2. I, just this day,
> installed IIS 5.1 in hopes of starting a website. IIS installed fine, but
> I
> cannot open default.htm. index.asp, iisstart.asp or iishelp by using
> http://localhost/filename
>
> Everyone has permission to read on all files in INETPUB
> Services are running for WWW and IIS Admin. Verified in the cmd window.
> Ran NetStat and determined that port 80 is listening.
> Went to another computer and I can ping my computer.
> Ran Telnet from far computer and it saw my computer.
> DNS resolves my address correctly.
> REmoved and reinstalled IIS.
> Applied ASP.net problem with adding IIS after .NET (aspnet_regiis -I) also
> registered dll
> I have turned off my XP firewall. And verified from services that it was
> shut down.
> I have turned off my McAfee firewall and verified it was shut down.
> I have tried using 127.0.0.1, the NIC card address, the computer's name,
> It's FQDN and localhost and nothing will display in IE.
> I have also tried restarting XP Internet Firewall Services, enabling and
> Checkmarking all entries under services tab except FTP.
> I have a W2K server running IIS 5.0 and have compared settings and find no
> difference except... The asterisk in front of the servername on my home
> computer is missing.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,

In addition to Ken's response, can you please check your IE settings and
see if you are using a proxy. If you do, try to uncheck that, or make sure
that it bypasses the proxy when accessing local addresses.


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Kristofer Gafvert
www.gafvert.info - My Articles and help
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ilgary wrote:

> I have an XP Pro box at home. I have installed SP2. I, just this day,
> installed IIS 5.1 in hopes of starting a website. IIS installed fine,
but I
> cannot open default.htm. index.asp, iisstart.asp or iishelp by using
> http://localhost/filename
>
> Everyone has permission to read on all files in INETPUB
> Services are running for WWW and IIS Admin. Verified in the cmd window.
> Ran NetStat and determined that port 80 is listening.
> Went to another computer and I can ping my computer.
> Ran Telnet from far computer and it saw my computer.
> DNS resolves my address correctly.
> REmoved and reinstalled IIS.
> Applied ASP.net problem with adding IIS after .NET (aspnet_regiis –I)
also
> registered dll
> I have turned off my XP firewall. And verified from services that it was
> shut down.
> I have turned off my McAfee firewall and verified it was shut down.
> I have tried using 127.0.0.1, the NIC card address, the computer’s
name,
> It’s FQDN and localhost and nothing will display in IE.
> I have also tried restarting XP Internet Firewall Services, enabling and
> Checkmarking all entries under services tab except FTP.
> I have a W2K server running IIS 5.0 and have compared settings and find
no
> difference except... The asterisk in front of the servername on my home
> computer is missing.
>
> Any help would be apprecia

Not sure what did it. You requested that I telnet into my box from my box.
I tried that. It did not connect. But I remembered that I was able to do it
from another box. So I tried again. Yes I was able to connect from another
box.

So I tried to serve up my default.htm from the other box. It worked. Tried
two other boxes in the area and it appears to work.

Back at the IIS server, I am still unable to use localhost to connect. I am
still unable to use 127.0.0.1 to connect. But I can see my default webpage
by typing in the name of the computer. It think I can get this thing to go
public now.

Appreciate your help.

My only changes from the first post. Completely removed McAfee software.
and completely removed Webroot spyware software. That was it

Again thanks for your pointer. It solved my problem, well at least this one.

"Ken Schaefer" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can you open a connection to port 80 on the IIS server using telnet
> (substitute your own IP address below)
>
> telnet>open 111.111.111.111 80
>
> If not, then something's still blocking it. If you can, then the issue is
> with IIS - I would start by checking the Event Logs on the IIS box.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
>
>
> "ilgary" <ilgary [at] discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2AA8E742-9807-471C-9782-E3D7C4FDE1A6 [at] microsoft.com...
> >I have an XP Pro box at home. I have installed SP2. I, just this day,
> > installed IIS 5.1 in hopes of starting a website. IIS installed fine, but
> > I
> > cannot open default.htm. index.asp, iisstart.asp or iishelp by using
> > http://localhost/filename
> >
> > Everyone has permission to read on all files in INETPUB
> > Services are running for WWW and IIS Admin. Verified in the cmd window.
> > Ran NetStat and determined that port 80 is listening.
> > Went to another computer and I can ping my computer.
> > Ran Telnet from far computer and it saw my computer.
> > DNS resolves my address correctly.
> > REmoved and reinstalled IIS.
> > Applied ASP.net problem with adding IIS after .NET (aspnet_regiis -I) also
> > registered dll
> > I have turned off my XP firewall. And verified from services that it was
> > shut down.
> > I have turned off my McAfee firewall and verified it was shut down.
> > I have tried using 127.0.0.1, the NIC card address, the computer's name,
> > It's FQDN and localhost and nothing will display in IE.
> > I have also tried restarting XP Internet Firewall Services, enabling and
> > Checkmarking all entries under services tab except FTP.
> > I have a W2K server running IIS 5.0 and have compared settings and find no
> > difference except... The asterisk in front of the servername on my home
> > computer is missing.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>