Re: Cannot access localhost under Windows XP Service Pack 2

From: Roberto Rocco (roberto_at_rocco.de)
Date: 10/10/04 

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:31:48 +0200

Hello Bernard,

thank you for your reply. I made a little progress, but still having
problems:
Here's my status:

I opened the IIS MMC under Web Site Properties/Home Directory Tab and
checked the
Application Protection level. It was set to "middle". I set it to low and
with this setting I can access simple html with localhost.

BUT: I still cannot enter http://localhost.

Following your suggestion I looked at the event log and indeed there's an
error entry saying:
"Event-ID 7034: The COM+ System Application service terminated unexpectedly.
It has done this 3 time(s)."

I believe it must have something to do with not being able to open ASP
pages, since I also get the following error message whenever I try to create
a new ASP project in Visual Studio 2003:

"Visual Studio cannot create or open the application because the Web server
on this computer is not running. Start the Web server before proceeding."

So is the COM+ System Application Servive the reason? Or is the event log
entry misleading here?

Thank you for every hint,

Roberto Rocco.

"Bernard" <qbernard@hotmail.com.discuss> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:u$OySinrEHA.736@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Anything in event log ?
> have you try a simple html ? http://localhost/simple.html ?
> does it works ?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Bernard Cheah
> http://www.tryiis.com/
> http://support.microsoft.com/
> http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/
>
>
>
> "Roberto Rocco" <roberto@rocco.de> wrote in message
> news:O8F87ikrEHA.2128@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> Hello,
>>
>> since my installation of Windows XP Service Pack 2 I cannot access
>> http://localhost.
>>
>> I get a HTTP 500 error (Server Application Error: The server has
> encountered
>> an error while loading an application during the processing of your
> request.
>> Please refer to the event log for more detail information. Please contact
>> the server administrator for assistance)
>>
>> However, I can successfully ping to http://localhost.
>>
>> IIS and WWW-Publishing Service are both up and running!
>>
>> I also deactivated the Windows Firewall and rebooted the system, but
>> still
>> cannot access localhost.
>>
>> Also: When I try to create a new ASP Web project in Visual Studio 2003
> get
>> the error message: "Visual Studio cannot create or open the application
>> because the Web server on this computer is not running. Start the Web
> server
>> before proceeding."
>>
>> I guess this is also due to the localhost not working.
>>
>> Has anybody an idea of what I could do to make localhost work with SP2?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>>
>> Roberto Rocco.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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