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Windows IIS website not opening on iMac OSX
Hello, we have a mixed environment of windows and apple computers. We have a windows file server that is running windows 7 SP1 with an IIS local website running. Its an aspx page.
This works just fine on the windows computers. I can access the http://websitename/ without a problem.
The problem is trying to pull up the site on any of the apple iMacs. I can't get it to pull up.
The iMac that I tested on was on OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.5
In any browser (Chrome, Safari) I get an error 'ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED' or 'Safari Can't Find the Server'
They are using airport extreme and ethernet at the same time.
So far the only thing I tried was changing the service order of the network to ethernet first.
This works just fine on the windows computers. I can access the http://websitename/ without a problem.
The problem is trying to pull up the site on any of the apple iMacs. I can't get it to pull up.
The iMac that I tested on was on OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.5
In any browser (Chrome, Safari) I get an error 'ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED' or 'Safari Can't Find the Server'
They are using airport extreme and ethernet at the same time.
So far the only thing I tried was changing the service order of the network to ethernet first.
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sorry, i was not trying to access http://localhost/ I was trying to access http://WebsiteName/
I edited the question to reflect
I edited the question to reflect
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I have no idea why I didnt think of that before! Replacing the server name with the IP address of the server where the website is hosted worked! Excellent! Thank You!!!!!
You're welcome!
Tip: When I start debugging a problem, I always consider everything broken + start at the beginning.
Many times it's the simplest things that are broken.
Tip: When I start debugging a problem, I always consider everything broken + start at the beginning.
Many times it's the simplest things that are broken.
Likely fix will be to make an entry in your Mac's /etc/hosts file assigning some IP to site... so if site is foo.com + IP is 1.1.1.1 then entry will be...
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This is only way to access local sites from many local machines.