IIS 5.1 toubles

Any help at all.
New DELL XP Pro laptop IIS 5.1
server is running
soon as i open IE session and try http://localhost or
http://127.0.0.1 nothing... 20-30 minutes later.. still
deciding what to do.. no error msg or nothing..
occasional.."can not find server"
pinging both localhost and IP address from command prompt
OK.
DELL wont help...
Disbled Mcafee firewall that came with laptop.
Anyone.. anywhere.. I only want the server for testing my
ASP and PHP pages locally... agggg

Hi,

a) do you have another machine available that you could network with the one
that's having problems? (so we can try to eliminate an IE problem?)

b) do you have any type of ISP package loaded on this machine that might
have changed your DNS or proxy settings or something? (so that HTTP requests
are going via their proxy server rather than directly to your IIS
webserver)?

c) If you go into the IIS MMC Snapin, bring up the default website's
properties, and change the TCP port from 80 to 81, and then type in
http://localhost:81/ can you bring up the default start page?

Cheers
Ken


"Robert" <anonymous.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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: Any help at all.
: New DELL XP Pro laptop IIS 5.1
: server is running
: soon as i open IE session and try http://localhost or
: http://127.0.0.1 nothing... 20-30 minutes later.. still
: deciding what to do.. no error msg or nothing..
: occasional.."can not find server"
: pinging both localhost and IP address from command prompt
: OK.
: DELL wont help...
: Disbled Mcafee firewall that came with laptop.
: Anyone.. anywhere.. I only want the server for testing my
: ASP and PHP pages locally... agggg
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