No Personal Web Manager

[danomaniac]

I've installed IIS on my Windows 2000 server, and there is no Personal Web Manager. IIS is running, but there is no PWM. What gives? any ideas? Thanks.

 

[vgrice]

If you are using Win2K server try Internet Services Manager. You wont have PWM. Vince Grice
vgrice@hotmail.com
MCSE Win2K, NT; MCSA; MCP+I

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
- Woodrow Wilson

 

[danomaniac]

Okay, No PWM. I'm looking at Internet Information Service and I see a directory tree that shows my default FTP site, Web site, and SMTP Virtual Server. The service is running and everything looks right, but I get a socket error when I try to access the web site. It says the host lookup for 'mysitename' failed.

 

[vgrice]

DNS set up? Vince Grice
vgrice@hotmail.com
MCSE Win2K, NT; MCSA; MCP+I

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
- Woodrow Wilson

 

[danomaniac]

I think DNS is set up correctly.

Here's what happens:

From another computer on the network, in a DOS window, I type: ping 10.1.0.100 and I ping it fine. I type ping servername and it pings fine. In a browser address window, I type

http://10.1.0.100

and I see my website homepage, but if I type

http://servername,

I get a socket error, Host name for 'servername' failed.

 

[arcturis]

is this installed on the local machine (not a networked), if so, try

http://localhost

A

 

[danomaniac]

This is installed on a Domain Controller running Windows 2000 Server. When I type

http://localhost

I get a browser error. Browser sent a malformed request.

 

[arcturis]

ok, correct me if i'm wrong. The machine has an ip of 10.1.0.100, you can ping it from a dos window on another machine, but when you put

http://10.1.0.100

in a browser window, if blows up? Heck, rather than fighting with it, reinstall IIS.

A

 

[danomaniac]

good advice...I'll keep you posted.

 

[danomaniac]

Okay. Here's the latest...

I've reinstalled IIS. Now everything appears to be working fine except:

From this machineserver name:ztm-pdc, IP: 10.1.0.100)

If I type

http://10.1.0.100

in the browser window, I see the site fine. - I know IIS is working...correct?

If I type

http://127.0.0.1

I see the site fine.

If I type

http://ztm-pdc

(which is the server name) I get a socket error - Host name lookup for 'ztm-pdc' failed.

If I type

http://localhost

I get a browser error - your browser sent a malformed request.

Any other machine on the network:

http://10.1.0.100

works fine

http://ztm-pdc

returns a socket error - Host name lookup for 'ztm-pdc' failed.

I can ping the server from any machine on the network using either 10.1.0.100 or ztm-pdc

from this machine I can ping localhost, ztm-pdc, 10.1.0.100, and 127.0.0.1

I have added a line in my hosts file:
10.1.0.100 ztm-pdc

What am I missing?..it has to be simple.

 

[arcturis]

I'm wondering if the dash in the host name is causing the problem. But let me look into it a bit more, just let me get some 'work' done lol...

Arc

 

[danomaniac]

Arc,
I solved the problem. I needed to put a check mark next to "Bypass proxy for all local addresses" in IE. Sometimes we overlook the obvious. Thanks again for your help.

 

[arcturis]

Ok Cool, but now you've got me wondering how it's working at home

Arc.