500 Server Error (500 Internal Server Error)

[xoltrix2000]

Hello, you are not gonna believe this:

1. I installed IIS 5 on WinXP Pro machine
2.

http://localhost

DOES not work /shrug
3. Check hosts file, looks fine (127.0.0.1 localhost)
4.

http://127.0.0.1

DOES not work as well
5. i did ipconfig /flushdns, thinking somehting was wrong
with my dns
6. i did a ping localhost, works fine, ping (computername)
works fine, ping ip address works fine.
7. I checked

http://localhost,

don't work,

http://127.0.0.1

Still don't work
8.

http://(ip

address) works fine, but i have new ip every
time i log on my computer, so i need localhost.

Can ANYONE tell me why can't i get IIS to run ???

-haval

 

[gbowen]

Have you checked to make sure the World Wide Web Publishing Service is running?

 

[xoltrix2000]

Hello, how do you check to see if you are running the World Wide Web Publishing Service??

-haval

 

[xoltrix2000]

hi again, Nevermind, the World Wide Web Publishing Service is Started (on).

-haval

 

[xoltrix2000]

SOLVED!!!!!

you must goto Internet Explorer, goto Tools --> Internet Options.
Click on the Connections Tab, click on Lan Settings, uncheck Automatically Detect Settings.

This was not letting me use Localhost, because it was searching the ISP for localhost.

-haval