localhost not working

[Salesman0Gil]

first, I'm a dunderheaded newbie at all of this.

localhost does not work in a browser, neither does 127.0.0.1. I can ping both of these though.

I am using Win Server 2000.

I have uninstalled Apahce, and would like to get this back to the orignal settings. If I remember correctly at first, you would type localhost in an IE window and it would take you to a Win Server 2000 page.

Please help!!

[kenobewan]

Welcome to TSDN. Try placing as index.html that says hello in the inetpub > wwwroot folder and report what happens.

[Salesman0Gil]

After I re-installed/un-installed Apache, then uninstalled/reinstalled IIS, I had my localhost working.

Here is an odd thing though. localhost goes to the default Win 2000 thing, 127.0.0.1 goes to the default apache page, even though I unistalled it.


Any Ideas?

[kenobewan]

You may need to uninstall the windows process activation service too. HTH.

[manoj2814]

How To Change Address Of Port In Localhost

[raajaindra]

How To Change Address Of Port In Localhost

Click START
Click RUN
type INETMGR
click OK
Right clik on DEFAULT WEB SITE
click PROPERTIES
change the port in TCP PORT under the WEB SITE tab


best of luck
raajaindra

[gaganjoshan]

Check if there is any disk defragmenter running as a backend process. This conflicts with IIS working and hence causes no page to display. I got the same issue and after banging my head for few hours, we found out from the event viewer that disk defragmenter is causing a conflict. There could be some other backend processes as well, such as a virus scanner which may conflict with IIS