error when typing http://localhost

Hi All,

i have a problem with typing a http://localhost, the page told me that
"There is a problem with the page you are trying to reach and it cannot be displayed."
"404 Not Found - The requested item could not be located. (12028) Internet Security and Acceleration Server"

but when i type http://computername i got the page is underconstruction, the localstart.asp does not work.

can any one help me urgent.

The error you quoted appears to be coming from your ISA server, not IIS. Check your ISA firewal settings.

The localstart.asp file will only execute on the computer that you have running IIS. If you go to a
different computer and try to connect to the intranet on the computer running IIS, you will get an under
construction message.

You need to replace the localstart.asp and iisstart.asp files in your IIS directory with an Index or Default.asp
file, and if necessary, you may need to add the names of Default Documents using the IIS Administration Tool.
P.s. This is only addressing the localstart.asp does not work and not the ISA Server problem.

If u r under a network. go under ur browser and under tools go under internet options then connection then lan settings....
if u r under a proxy, check the bypass proxy server for local address....

this will make \\localhost work.

I tend not use http://localhost/, but the actual name of the Web Server (e.g. http://intranet/). Is this a security risk?

I didn't really explain my last message very well. I thought I had better explain how I got http://intranet/ (although I know most people already know, it is likely some wont!) I get the intranet URL because the name of my IIS PC is intranet. Typing the name of your IIS PC or http://localhost will automatically execute a default file within C:\Inetpub\wwwroot (unless youve changed the path). So http://intranet looks in the wwwroot folder. If I typed http://intranet/NewFolder, IIS would look for a default file within C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\NewFolder. And so on.

Just FYI, localhost is a built-in alias for 127.0.0.1 which is the built-in loopback ip address. http://computername gets resolved by windows to the computer local ip address, so from the server itself you can use http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 or http://computername with identical results.

You can't use localhost from a different computer on your LAN, but you can use the server's ip address or on windows networks you can usually use http://computername from other computers.

Oh right, so you can only use http://localhost on the IIS Machine, not any other PC. That would explain my curses! Thanks!

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