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Asked: 2026-05-16T06:46:51+00:00

Don’t know if maybe this question belongs on serverfault, but I’ll try here first.

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Don’t know if maybe this question belongs on serverfault, but I’ll try here first.

I’m running Visual Studio 2010 on my machine, and I want to test my ASP.NET page in IE6. IE6 is running on a virtual machine using Windows XP Mode.

The problem is that I can’t access localhost from the virtual machine. I’ve also tried accessing it via my ip: 123.12.12.123:12121, but that doesn’t work either. Is there something I can setup in Visual Studio? Or is the problem most likely with the virtual pc?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The “Cassini” web server provided as part of Visual Studio doesn’t support requests from any machine other than the one it’s running on. A virtual machine running on that machine is considered to be a different machine for these purposes.

    You have twothree options:

    1. Deploy your software to IIS running on your development machine (or a.n.other machine).
    2. Download WebMatrix, to get hold of a copy of IISExpress, as it’s somewhat easier to setup debugging against as opposed to “real” IIS.
    3. Have a look at UltiDev Cassini, it’s another implementation of the Visual Studio web server. I’ve never used it so can’t comment on quality.
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