localhost?

[Guest]

I installed IIS and FP 2002 extensions on Windows XP pro system. I have evidently messed something up. I used to be able to bring up website with http://localhost/name but now I cannot. The IE just hangs with the address in the address bar. I can browse to and open the site on Inetpub/wwwroot.

Any suggestions please

 

[Jim Buyens]

-----Original Message-----

I installed IIS and FP 2002 extensions on Windows XP pro
system. I have evidently messed something up. I used to
be able to bring up website with http://localhost/name
but now I cannot. The IE just hangs with the address in
the address bar. I can browse to and open the site on
Inetpub/wwwroot.

Try http://127.0.0.1

If that works, your hosts file is missing or corrupted.
Open c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (specifying, of
course, the windows path on your system) and make sure it
contains the line:

127.0.0.1 localhost

If no such file exists on your system, create one. It's
just a text file with no filename extension.

If http://127.0.0.1 doesn't work, make sure the Web
server is running and properly configured.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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[Kevin Spencer]

One additional note: In local URLs, the machine name will work in place of
an IP address or Host name.

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

 

[Guest]

How do you properly configure web server and make sure it is running? I have tried to uninstall IIS/ install IIS, use Share Point Administrator to install and configure the FP 2002 server extensions.

Thanks for any information.

 

[Guest]

I thank you for all your suggestions. I would not have to courage to try things if it were not for the MS-MVP's and others around. I think I messed up system trying to install PHP. I did restore back to few weeks and localhost is working for FrontPage. I have derived so much pleasure from working on the computer in the last few years and I volunteer maintaining few simple websites for small town non-profit organizations.

Susan