Re: XP Pro and IIS going to http://localhost

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From: Hans-Georg Michna (hans-georgNoEmailPlease_at_michna.com)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:43:36 +0200

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:33:07 -0700, Art Bowie
<ArtBowie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I've installed the WWW Service on XP Pro. It appears to be running but when
>I point the browser at http://localhost it never loads a web page.
>
>This is XP Pro with SP2
>
>Things I've checked:

>o I run McAfee Security Center and I've tried disabling their personal
>firewall and privacy service

Art,

uninstall the McAfee program entirely.

Then follow the other advice given in
http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm. Pretend that the web server
is on another computer. The solutions are probably the same.

Hans-Georg 

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