call to localhost not responding on XP

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I have looked at quite a few of the other messages and have not found a
solution.

I have two machines running XP Pro SP2, behind a router. On one of them
localhost does not respond using http://localhost/iisstart.asp in
either IE or Mozilla. This is a new machine. It worked at one time, and
suddenly quit. Usually the browser just quits trying, but sometimes I
get "cannot find page or dns server". Windows task manager performance
tab says 50% while the browser is looking.

In IIS I tried browsing http://localhost/IISHelp/default.htm by right
clicking and it does not work.

I did find this in the most recent log file:

#Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.1
#Version: 1.0
#Date: 2006-02-21 08:45:38
#Fields: time c-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem sc-status
08:54:56 127.0.0.1 GET /iisstart.asp 500

The other, older machine runs fine. I can ping each machine from the
other one. I can ping 127.0.0.1 just fine.
I can see no differences in the settings between the two machines.

Any ideas as to what I can do next? Please keep it simple, as I am not
an expert. I only program desktop applications.

Thanks.
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Re: call to localhost not responding on XP by Ken

Ken
Wed Feb 22 02:11:46 CST 2006

IIS is responding. Unfortunately an error is occuring in attempting to
process the request (that's the "500" error status in the log file)

What happens if you create a new file in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\? Maybe just a
plain HTML page similar to:

<html>
<head></head>
<body>
My test page
</body>
</html>

Save this as test.htm and request it as http://localhost/test.htm

Cheers
Ken


"RonC" <rclaxton1@cox.net> wrote in message
news:1140592249.706926.31600@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
:I have looked at quite a few of the other messages and have not found a
: solution.
:
: I have two machines running XP Pro SP2, behind a router. On one of them
: localhost does not respond using http://localhost/iisstart.asp in
: either IE or Mozilla. This is a new machine. It worked at one time, and
: suddenly quit. Usually the browser just quits trying, but sometimes I
: get "cannot find page or dns server". Windows task manager performance
: tab says 50% while the browser is looking.
:
: In IIS I tried browsing http://localhost/IISHelp/default.htm by right
: clicking and it does not work.
:
: I did find this in the most recent log file:
:
: #Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.1
: #Version: 1.0
: #Date: 2006-02-21 08:45:38
: #Fields: time c-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem sc-status
: 08:54:56 127.0.0.1 GET /iisstart.asp 500
:
: The other, older machine runs fine. I can ping each machine from the
: other one. I can ping 127.0.0.1 just fine.
: I can see no differences in the settings between the two machines.
:
: Any ideas as to what I can do next? Please keep it simple, as I am not
: an expert. I only program desktop applications.
:
: Thanks.
:


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Re: call to localhost not responding on XP by RonC

RonC
Wed Feb 22 18:19:31 CST 2006

I did as you suggested with a simple page and it comes up after a long
time.
But when it comes up it says "My test page" and no error messages.

So now what?

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