localhost isn't found by IE

[Agoston Bejo]

Hi,
I stumbled upon a strange problem.
I have IIS 5.0 installed under Win2K. When I try to reach something in the
wwwroot directory as e.g. http://localhost/iishelp/ , I get an error
message:




Caudium // (with helluva great letters)

Sorry

The resource requested /iishelp/ cannot be found.
If you feel that this is a configuration error, please contact the
administrators or the author of the referring page.


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
Caudium/1.2.33 STABLE, at http://localhost/.



Everything works fine when I specify the address as
http://127.0.0.1/iishelp/ , though.

Virus or something?

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

Hi,
I stumbled upon a strange problem.
I have IIS 5.0 installed under Win2K. When I try to reach something
in the wwwroot directory as e.g. http://localhost/iishelp/ , I get an
error message:




Caudium // (with helluva great letters)

Sorry

The resource requested /iishelp/ cannot be found.
If you feel that this is a configuration error, please contact the
administrators or the author of the referring page.


---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------
----
Caudium/1.2.33 STABLE, at http://localhost/.



Everything works fine when I specify the address as
http://127.0.0.1/iishelp/ , though.

Virus or something?

ensure the first entry of your hosts file is

127.0.0.1 localhost

 

[Agoston Bejo]

That is the first line.
'localhost' still doesn't work, '127.0.0.1' still does.
Mysterious...

Hi,
I stumbled upon a strange problem.
I have IIS 5.0 installed under Win2K. When I try to reach something
in the wwwroot directory as e.g. http://localhost/iishelp/ , I get an
error message:

[...]
ensure the first entry of your hosts file is

127.0.0.1 localhost



--
Steve Parry BA (Hons) MCP MVP


http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

[Jeff Cochran]

Hi,
I stumbled upon a strange problem.
I have IIS 5.0 installed under Win2K. When I try to reach something in the
wwwroot directory as e.g. http://localhost/iishelp/ , I get an error
message:




Caudium // (with helluva great letters)

Sorry

The resource requested /iishelp/ cannot be found.
If you feel that this is a configuration error, please contact the
administrators or the author of the referring page.


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
Caudium/1.2.33 STABLE, at http://localhost/.



Everything works fine when I specify the address as
http://127.0.0.1/iishelp/ , though.

Virus or something?

Maybe:

Control Panel -> Internet Options -> Connections -> LAN Settings ->
Uncheck everything.

Jeff

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

That is the first line.
'localhost' still doesn't work, '127.0.0.1' still does.
Mysterious...

if you goto a CMD prompt and ping localhost what response do you get?

Have you checked your PC with some spyware checker like Spybot?

 

[Agoston Bejo]

Damn it... I use a proxy and didn't check 'bypass proxy server for local
addresses'... Now localhost works at last.

That is the first line.
'localhost' still doesn't work, '127.0.0.1' still does.
Mysterious...

Hi,
I stumbled upon a strange problem.
I have IIS 5.0 installed under Win2K. When I try to reach something
in the wwwroot directory as e.g. http://localhost/iishelp/ , I get an
error message:

[...]
ensure the first entry of your hosts file is

127.0.0.1 localhost



--
Steve Parry BA (Hons) MCP MVP


http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk