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arthurakay
arthurakay

Reputation: 5651

Connecting to Windows localhost (IIS) from another computer

I have a Windows Vista laptop running IIS7 for its localhost. On this machine, I can successfully navigate to:

However, I cannot access this localhost website from another computer on the same network. Ideally I would be able to visit "http://mycpuname" (so that I can hard-code a connection), but at this point I might settle for the IP address of the machine (http://192.000.000.xyz)

I've seen similar questions asked here and elsewhere on the internet... but none of the posts seems to fix the issue for me.

Things I've tried: - adding exceptions to Windows Firewall to allow TCP ports 80 and 8080 - disabling Windows Firewall entirely - running the "netsh" commands in this post

Additionally, I am looking at the IP address on the Windows laptop by running "ipconfig" from the command prompt. Oddly enough, trying to access "http://192.000.000.xyz" from the Windows laptop doesn't seem to work...

I have also tried restarting IIS and restarting my machine.

Help?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 29086

Answers (4)

Nikolai Fetissov
Nikolai Fetissov

Reputation: 84169

Try netstat -na - it will show you what IP addresses your web server is listening on.

If it's only listening on 127.0.0.1, the loopback, you will have to re-configure the web server to listen on all addresses/interfaces (usually either *.*.*.*, or 0.0.0.0 in some config file, or just some drop-down in some windows dialog somewhere).

If, on the other hand, netstat tells you the web server is listening on *.*.*.* or 0.0.0.0, i.e. all interfaces, then you have to figure out what's blocking the traffic - it's either the local firewall, or something on the path between the two computers.

Upvotes: 4

ajalex
ajalex

Reputation: 81

Go to windows firewall with advanced security, inbound rules and check and see if world wide web services is enabled. I had this same issue, and this fixed it for me.

Upvotes: 8

sumit sharma
sumit sharma

Reputation: 1057

If you want to access your website from any other computer on your local network then you need to simply type your network IP and port. If you want to access it from internet then you need to configure your IP.

Upvotes: -3

Ted Shaw
Ted Shaw

Reputation: 2306

are you binding to 127.0.0.1? run below command 

netstat -an |findstr :80 |findstr LISTEN

if it shows 127.0.0.1, you need change IIS listen to 0.0.0.0

Upvotes: 4

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