The local ip of 127.0.0.1 does not work from a browser.
(since when did localhost get eliminated--can you point me toward any documentation on that? It is also causing problems for my installation of visual studio.)
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Browse All TopicsI updated front page server extensions for IIS5 on Windows 2000 Server. It seems that since then one asp and one asp.net application do not run, whereas others run just fine. I am having problems debugging the two applications because "localhost" is not a recognized http address. This is also new!
Is it possible to roll back the server extension upgrade to determine whether this is the problem? Any other ideas?
Greg
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It turns out that the default server was set to only accept a specific IP address rather than all. Setting it to all IP addresses in IIS fixed the localhost problem.
The first asp.net problem was resolved by registering an asp.net component.
The second asp problem was fixed by changing permissions for that web application.
Greg
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by: slamhoundPosted on 2008-06-09 at 22:07:22ID: 21748609
I would say that these two programs won't work becaue they reference localhost which I think has been removed because it was a security issue. Change the two programs that don't work so they reference either an ip address (probably 127.0.0.1) or the full domain name.