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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.

David Favor

You can only reference a site via http://localhost/ on machine where site is running.

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...

1.1.1.1 foo.com

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This is only way to access local sites from many local machines.

s14sport

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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

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s14sport

ASKER

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!!!!!

David Favor

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.