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Trying to get localhost working with IIS, on Windows 2008

I am trying to host a web service at an ISP but think I need to get localhost pointing at my site.

I created a binding for localhost and can browse my asmx page properly. But when I enter "localhost" into the browser, the default IIS page comes up.

Is that correct? Or should my web service come up?

I'm a bit confused.

Thanks,
newbieweb

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OK. After reading your post, I remembered the "localhost" I created in Binding needs to use 127.0.0.1. So I changed that, but

http://localhost/CentralizedMobileService/MobileService.asmx still does not resolve when I am running it locally.

Should it?

I use the name "CentralizedMobileService" as my Host Header. And I just changed the folder name to be different than the host headed name, since I was told that may be the problem.

Please tell me what should work from, the browser involving localhost, then I will be able to determine if I am searching in the right place for the source of my problem.

THE real problem is that http://173.1.174.114:80/CentralizedMobileService/MobileService.asmx does not resolve. It returns the following error:

404 - File or directory not found.

So please tell me....

http://localhost should return the IIS welcome page? (It does)

http://localhost/CentralizedMobileService/MobileService.asmx should return my website? (It does not)

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