IIS ins't running

[Dave Neve]

Hi

I have just installed IIS on my computer as I want to look at asp.dot

The CD provided by Microsoft at a trade fair says that if IIS is installed
correctly, then if I type in an explorer

http://myip
or
http://mycomputername,

then I should get two windows up on the screen.

But all I get is that the site is unavailable using IE 5.5.

I have Windows XP with SP1 and SP2 installed.

My system is tweaked to stop unnecessary services from starting up and I
have tried going through the list in Administration Systems -Services but I
haven't managed to solve the problem.

What is likely to stop IIS from running.

Thanks in advance

Dave Neve

 

[Tim Slattery]

Hi

I have just installed IIS on my computer as I want to look at asp.dot

The CD provided by Microsoft at a trade fair says that if IIS is installed
correctly, then if I type in an explorer

http://myip
or
http://mycomputername,

then I should get two windows up on the screen.

Have you tried:

http://localhost ?

The browser will try to resolve myip or mycomputername to an IP
address, using your hosts file then the DNS system. If it can't come
up with an IP address, it will display a message something like what
you quote. "localhost" or the loopback IP address 127.0.0.1 should
work.

 

[Dave Neve]

Hi

Local host doesn't work either.

Any ideas please?

Thanks

 

[Hal Rosser]

its likely that you did not 'start' the IIS server.
right-click on my-computer
choose 'manage'
etc
start the default web site

 

[Mark Schupp]

try 127.0.0.1

--
--Mark Schupp
Head of Development
Integrity eLearning
www.ielearning.com

Hi

Local host doesn't work either.

Any ideas please?

Thanks

 

[Jeff Dillon]

From a command prompt

net start w3svc

Jeff