When I type http://localhost, I get the message as Internet explorer can not display web page. It is happening in Win 7 Professional. I have turned on all the windows features related to IIS. IIS service is also in running mode.
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When I type http://localhost, I get the message as Internet explorer can not display web page. It is happening in Win 7 Professional. I have turned on all the windows features related to IIS. IIS service is also in running mode.
This could be a problem with how your browser connects to the IIS. By default IE will try IPv6 before it will fallback on IPv4 so if you add
::1 localhost
into your hosts file in %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\ you’ll be fine.
Edit 1:
Have you tried the standard loopback http://127.0.0.1? Do you get the same result then? If that doesnt work then you at least ruled out the DNS problem.