HELP! Can't get localhost to work without "Error 500" messa
Posted by admin on Apr 4th, 2007
After using Windows 2000 for several years, I recently purchased a laptop with Vista Home Premium installed. Since I do some simple web development on a couple of sites I have (I use Macromedia Homesite to write the code), I set up IIS. In Windows 2000 I used the PWS interface, which was delightfully simple. Since Vista doesn't seem to have any equivalent to PWS, at least as far as I can see, I'm struggling to find my way through IIS itself. After setting up a default web directory in IIS, I tried to access it through localhost, but got an error message (Error 500) with a long explanation of possible problems. The most likely seemed to relate to either authentication or something in the congiguration of IIS, but I was still not able to get localhost to access the directory. I just want to set up the web site on my computer for local access from my computer for development purposes, and will then FTP to the outside host for public access. Any suggestions on what I need to do to use localhost successfully, as well as how to make sense of and simplify IIS for my basic purposes, would be appreciated. Larry S
Apr 8th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Larry,Did you place your web in c:\inetpub ? I am just fooling around with IIS but found that if I placed my web at c:\inetpub and made sure that it had the same security permissions as the default wwwroot did that it worked fine for me. I have not tried placing the web elsewhere but would assume that it would at least want to have the same security setting as 'wwwroot' does.My goal was to get my Vista Home Premium to serve as a web page server from the outside network. My Verizon account blocks port 80 and I have a dynamic IP address so those were complications that I think I have gotten fixed.Michael"Larry S."