Help setting up IIS 7.0

Question

I am trying to setup IIS on my laptop.

I have followed a guide which said to go to:

Control Panel > Programs > Turn Windows Features On / Off > Click on IIS.

I have done this and my computer now says that IIS is running. However when I visit http://localhost in my browser I get a 'Page Cannot be Displayed' error.

I have had it working before but can't seem to get it working now.

Does anyone have any ideas of why this might be happening?

I am using Windows Vista Home Premium

Thanks

Answer 1

To confirm, you followed the steps here but you are not able to view localhost.

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/28/install-iis-7-on-windows-vista-and-windows-7/

What do you see in the management tool? Is the website up?

Answer 2

http://forums.iis.net/p/1026696/1881651.aspx#1881651

http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/07/26/Troubleshoot-IIS7-errors-like-a-pro.aspx

Answer 3

Have you setup a website? The problem may be that localhost doesn't have anything to point at.

There is usually a default page that Localhost is looking for (like index.htm) if there are no pages setup for localhost to be pointing to then it won't be able to display a page, this might be because there is no index.htm or that you have not pointed localhost at anything

Have you tried going to something like : http://localhost/filethatdefinitelyexists.html?