IIS not serving up pages on XP

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I have installed IIS on my new laptop which uses XP Pro. All the services appear to be working, but no pages are served up in the browser. I have not been able to get this working since I bought the laptop. Locallost just hangs, so there is not error message. I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling, reinstalling my operating system with the source discs from Dell, and installing all of the patches and updates I could find. Please help me with this. I've been struggling with this for 3 weeks.
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Re: IIS not serving up pages on XP by Ken

Ken
Tue Oct 21 09:04:45 CDT 2003

Anything in the Windows Event Log?

What if you create a simple HTML page, called test.htm and you place:

<html>
<body>
<p>Some Test Text</p>
</body>
</html>

and you place this into c:\inetpub\wwwroot\ and call it with
http://localhost/test,htm

Cheers
Ken

"Gail" <gaill7.nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:B4CA716E-B5A5-4867-910C-2C9C5A3B8EC4@microsoft.com...
: I have installed IIS on my new laptop which uses XP Pro. All the services
appear to be working, but no pages are served up in the browser. I have not
been able to get this working since I bought the laptop. Locallost just
hangs, so there is not error message. I have tried
uninstalling/reinstalling, reinstalling my operating system with the source
discs from Dell, and installing all of the patches and updates I could find.
Please help me with this. I've been struggling with this for 3 weeks.


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RE: IIS not serving up pages on XP by anonymous

anonymous
Tue Oct 21 09:51:04 CDT 2003

My posts are not going through. Arrgh!
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RE: IIS not serving up pages on XP by anonymous

anonymous
Tue Oct 21 09:51:13 CDT 2003

test page hangs.
no events listed
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Re: IIS not serving up pages on XP by jcochran

jcochran
Tue Oct 21 15:47:35 CDT 2003

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:41:06 -0700, "Gail" <gaill7.nospam@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>I have installed IIS on my new laptop which uses XP Pro. All the services appear to be working, but no pages are served up in the browser. I have not been able to get this working since I bought the laptop. Locallost just hangs, so there is not error message. I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling, reinstalling my operating system with the source discs from Dell, and installing all of the patches and updates I could find. Please help me with this. I've been struggling with this for 3 weeks.

First try a "Hello World!" HTML file, called by name:

===] HelloWorld.htm [===

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Hello World!</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY><P>Hello World!</P></BODY></HTML>

=====================

Save in the root, in the browser enter:

http://localhost/helloworld.htm

If that doesn't work, one common issue:

No network connection. Install the MS Loopback Adapter. See:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;236869

If that does work, then other common issues:

Antivirus or Firewall software blocking scripts
IIS Lockdown or URLScan with the ASP extension blcoked.

Jeff
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