The standard way to resolve that is to find the hosts file
and map your loopback address ( 127.0.0.1 ) to "localhost".
There's an issue connected to doing that on Vista.
The hosts file is considered a system file by Vista.
You have to first take ownership of it then grant yourself full control.
These are the two commands that you need to run from an elevated command prompt.
(Right click "command prompt" and choose "Run as Administrator") :
1.
takeown /f c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
2.
icacls c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts /grant yourusername:f
If you installed to a drive other than "c:", modify accordingly, of course.
Now you can open the file with notepad, insert this line and save the hosts file
( make sure it doesn't acquire a .txt extension ) :
127.0.0.1 localhost
If that doesn't fix it, you have a bad install of the TCP/IP stack.
Juan T. Llibre, asp.net MVP
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"John Kotuby" <jo***@discussions.microsoft.comwrote in message
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Hi all,
I have been working on transferring my development environments to a new Vista ultimate machine
(from XP) and am running into difficulties. After patching both SQL Server 2005 and VS 2005, I am
now attempting to test my VB Web Site application the same way I did in XP. IIS is running and in
IIS Management I see the default website in the correct spot, yet http://localhost/ is not
resolving. Has anyone else run into this problem and have a fix?
Thanks,,,