IIS - Localhost not working [Resolved]

[mendhak]

Recently, our office migrated to another domain.

Also, the computer name was changed.

After this occured, I haven't been able to access my pages through http://localhost/, but I can if I do http://mendhak2/

(mendhak2 is the new machine name).

What's going on, and how can I fix this?

[mendhak]

OH, I should mention the error page I get:

When trying through localhost:

The page cannot be displayed


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403 Forbidden - The server denies the specified Uniform Resource Locator (URL). Contact the server administrator. (12202)
Internet Security and Acceleration Server

[mendhak]

Got it!

I know others have faced this problem before. It was caused because 'localhost' was being processed by the proxy server. Go to Tools > Internet Options... > Connections > LAN Settnigs, and choose to bypass proxy server for local addresses.


I'm a friggin genius.