IIS on XP Pro
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Topic: IIS on XP Pro
Posted By: SpongeBob
Subject: IIS on XP Pro
Date Posted: 09 May 2006 at 2:37pm
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Hi
Can anyone help as i am new to IIS and setting up web sites.
I have followed the instructions on this site for setting up the IIS and a website but i can not get the //localhost or //localhost/webname or the IP address/whatever to fire up with any web pages.
The vitrual directory for my web site was created by browsing to my d drive for the sites folders.
According to the instrctions that should have been it!
Are there any other permissions etc i need to change to get up and running?
All I want to do is to practice / learn how to build local websites using ASP and MS Access but with out IIS I'm stuffed!
Thanks in advance for any sugestions. ... polite ones!
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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 09 May 2006 at 2:54pm
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Well, if you would have shared the output you actually did get it might help. In IIS itself, when you go to the Virusl Directory and right click any htm file you got in there you should see an option for Browse. that should navigate your IE to something like http://localhost/yourdir/file.htm and display it. If it does not, let us know what IE told ya. ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: SpongeBob
Date Posted: 09 May 2006 at 2:57pm
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The error page displayed was "Page cnan not be displayed"
Cannot find server or DNS Error
Internet Explorer i'll check out what you have said and get back to you.
Thanks
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Posted By: SpongeBob
Date Posted: 09 May 2006 at 3:20pm
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Hi Michael I tried what you said IE opened a window and started to open the page but has only got half way through the load and so does not display the page and so no error it just sits there. Any ideas?
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Posted By: SpongeBob
Date Posted: 09 May 2006 at 3:43pm
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Going into IIS selecting a page from the site and clicking on browse finally produced the same eror in IE:
"The page cannot be displayed"
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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 09 May 2006 at 4:25pm
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Even if you just go to http://localhost and not loading a page going for default? You should be getting the Under Construction Page....
Did you try to use your computer name as opposed to localhost? ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: SpongeBob
Date Posted: 09 May 2006 at 7:53pm
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I've tried the following;
http://localhost - http://localhost
http://localhost/canberra/index.htm - http://localhost/canberra/index.htm
http://home1/canberra - http://home1/canberra
http://10.100.0.101 - http://10.100.0.101
and other combinations, i still get the same error page of "The page cannot be displayed"
Cannot find server or DNS Error
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 10 May 2006 at 12:20am
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Your machine name when used as tour home url will look something like http://mymachinename/ You might also want to try http://127.0.0.1 First go into control panel anch check that the iis service is running. Start it if it isn't. If you can't start it there, re install. ------------- 
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Posted By: SpongeBob
Date Posted: 10 May 2006 at 7:57am
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Hi dypers I have been into the IIS control panel and checked that the default web site is running and it is. My machimes name is home1, as mentioned earlier i have tried various combinations of localhost, the website name on its own, and the machines IP address.
I have now tried the 127.0.0.1 address and i still get the same result "The page cannot be displayed"
I have even gone as far as to switch on the indexing server. but this makes no difference.
i have now uninstalled IIS rebooted Reinstalled it again and gone through the Web Wiz ISS guide but still no joy.
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Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 10 May 2006 at 8:14am
Try this and make sure you do it exactly as stated below:
let us know how it goes, good luck. ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |
Posted By: SpongeBob
Date Posted: 10 May 2006 at 10:38am
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Hi Nice to see i'n not the only one who uses w3schools!!
I followed your instructions to the letter and even installed ISS on a clean machine and tried it there but.... yes you guessed... "The page cannot be displayed.
Keep the ideas coming I'll try anything once ... within reason!
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Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 10 May 2006 at 12:58pm
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you could try this: http://www.webwiz.net/asp/faq/friendly_HTTP_error_messages.asp - http://www.webwiz.net/asp/faq/friendly_HTTP_error_messages.asp which everyone strangly forgot to mention ------------- S2H.co.uk - http://www.s2h.co.uk/wwf/" rel="nofollow - WebWiz Mods and Skins For support on my mods + skins, please use http://www.s2h.co.uk/forum/" rel="nofollow - my forum . |
Posted By: ctscott
Date Posted: 10 May 2006 at 2:01pm
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a personal firewall could also be blocking you so you may want to check that. also check to see if the server is using port 80 ------------- ______________________ http://www.cfbtrivia.com" rel="nofollow - College Football Trivia |
Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 10 May 2006 at 11:17pm
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You might have to check the Hosts file too. Go to Start >> My Computer >> C:\ ((or whatever your local drive is) >> WINDOWS >> System32 >> drivers >> etc >> right-click on Hosts and select open >> from the list, select NotePad.
When the Hosts file opens up, check at the end of it to see that the following is mentioned:
127.0.0.1 localhost ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |
Posted By: SpongeBob
Date Posted: 11 May 2006 at 10:10am
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Guys
Thanks for sticking with this one!
Scotty 32:
Followed your link and uncheck the option - On refresh I get web site found ... waiting for reply and then i get a blank page with a red egg timer and the word done. I can't click on it to retrieve any messages as my mouse pointer turns to an egg timer when i mouse over!
ctscott:
I am running a McAfee firewall which i have now temporarily disabled with no change in the outcome.
I have checked the default web site in IIS and it is running on default TCP Port 80.
Info Tech:
I've checked the Host file and it reads as per your message.
I've also pinged the loopback IP address 127.0.0.1 and "localhost" and it works both ways.
keep the thoughts coming guys, if I'm ever to get up and running with ASP then you're my best chance of getting there.
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Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 11 May 2006 at 10:17am
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If all the above didn't solve the problem then I'd advise you to format your hard drive and re-install windows and then re-install IIS. ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |
Posted By: SpongeBob
Date Posted: 11 May 2006 at 10:36am
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ooouch! I only built the machine and installed it a couple of weeks ago!! I'll have to give that one some thought, but will probably do it after I calm down from giving the thing few technical taps with my boot!
Thanks for the help and advice so far I'll get back to everyone with the result
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Posted By: ctscott
Date Posted: 11 May 2006 at 1:47pm
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if you're running SP2 don't forget to check and see if the Microsoft firewall is stopping you. ------------- ______________________ http://www.cfbtrivia.com" rel="nofollow - College Football Trivia |
Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 13 May 2006 at 4:25pm
well in IE, you can have "friendly errors" which means if theres an error in your code, you wont get the asp error, you'll get "page cannot be found" this courses alot of new asp'ers to think the page ... cannot be found, but its just IE hidding it you said you "unchecked" the option, that means it WAS hidding your error you should have an error on your page now, i cant comment on the eggtimer or what not, as it might be part of your page. post the error you get in the page ------------- S2H.co.uk - http://www.s2h.co.uk/wwf/" rel="nofollow - WebWiz Mods and Skins For support on my mods + skins, please use http://www.s2h.co.uk/forum/" rel="nofollow - my forum . |
SpongeBob wrote:Posted By: SpongeBob
Date Posted: 14 May 2006 at 12:08pm
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Hi Scotty 32 Unfortunatly your messaga arrived to late.
Having stormed around the room a few time in frustration i finally took Info Tech's advice and i formated the disk... again and reinstalled everything... again!
and guesss what? all is now working just like it says in the guides!!
 So just a big THANK YOU to everyone who chipped in to help me out.
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Posted By: dfrancis
Date Posted: 14 May 2006 at 3:26pm
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Phooey... I was really hoping reformatting the HD was not the answer. I've been having some trouble with IIS and I was hoping someone was going to post the magic key combination. Dartitall.... all those programs, registrations, passwords, set ups, cookies.... phooey phoot phoot.
(Done)
Congratulations SpongeBob! Hey... I just got a great idea for a new skin... the SpongeBob skin. :)
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Posted By: SpongeBob
Date Posted: 15 May 2006 at 2:37pm
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Hi
One last word on this subject then I'm done.
i am running McAfee's internet suite 7.1
I have just come off line with McAfee because as soon as i had re-installed all of the McAfee stuf my problem came back... there wasn't a problem with IIS 5.1 it was with McAfee's PRIVACY SERVICE and they could not resolve the problem with a twek I have had to upgrade the PRIVACY SERVICE to the latest version and without any changes to its setup IIS is now up and running.
 So if anyone out there is running IIS 5.1 and McAfee Internet Suite 7.1 with Privacy Service and are suffering the problems i has the upgrade to the latest version of Privacy Service
You can get a 30 day free trial copy from their download site http://download.mcafee.com/us/eval/evaluate2.asp - http://download.mcafee.com/us/eval/evaluate2.asp
Hope I have put a little back into the forum for the help I got out!
PS
can some turn sponge bob into an avitar for me!!!
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