[RESOLVED] IIS5.1 Setup on XP

[brucevde]

I have two computers running XP connected via a router. Both have IIS 5.1installed and both are used to develop websites using VWD 2005 Express.

From computer A (I call her Trixie) I simply want to open a web browser and navigate to a site on computer B (I call her Bambi).

I thought I could use \\bambi\localhost\websitename but I get "windows cannot find \\bambi\localhost\websitename" error.

Is this a setup/security issue? What would be the url to access a website on Bambi from Trixie?

[mendhak]

http://bambi/websitename/

\\ is a UNC path and the browser is passing the request to windows explorer which is attempting to find the shared directory.

[brucevde]

I now get the "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" error.

Is there a setting I need to enable somewhere? In IIS, the Router or maybe Windows Firewall...

[tr333]

If you are using the internal development webserver of VWD (assuming it has one, like VisualStudio), then it's probably running on a non-standard port. If you run the code on the local machine, it will open up the web browser with http://localhost:portnumber/websitename/. Grab the port number from that URL and plug it into the URL on the other computer. http://bambi:portnumber/websitename/.

[mendhak]

Make sure you try it on each machine's own browser first. So go to Bambi, open a browser, then try http://localhost/sitename/

You've set the virtual directory up in IIS, right, and not the Visual Studio web development server as treee is mentioning?

If it works from bambi to bambi, but not trixie to bambie, then it could be any number of issues, one of which would be firewall.

[brucevde]

Windows Firewall was blocking HTTP access.

Open Windows Firewall
Select the Advanced Tab
Select/highlight "Local Area Connection" in the Network Connection Settings frame.
Click the Settings button
Enable the Web Service (HTTP) option.
Click Ok.

Thanks guys...