http://localhost fails to work

[petertickler]

I have taken over a new server running Windows 2000 from a network guy who has left. He has left IIS installed, but I can't get it to work. Even when I key in

http://localhost

on the server, all it displays is "No website configyured at this address".

Any ideas as to where I might start to sort this out?
Peter

 

[intelwizrd]

open up the iis mmc snap-in and see if there are any sites configured and what ip they answer on. "localhost" resolves to 127.0.0.1 and unless you have a site set to answer on that address or "all undefined" ips then you wont get a response. you can try

http://ipaddress/

and substitute the ipadress(es) of the server and see what you get, then do reverse lookups on the ips to figure out what domain names point to it.

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Josh
CCNA, MCSE 2003(in progress)