Vista web site connection problem

Vista web site connection problem

I set up a website in a new computer running Vista Home Premium. The website works fine when you call //localhost/ from IE Explorer. However, you can't open the site from another computer. The router is definitely set to pass port 80 requests on to this machine; in fact, the website was working perfectly well on a Windows XP machine which was replaced by this computer.

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Guest [Entry]

I'd suggest double checking the ip address on the "server" and making sure it is set to a static ip address outside the range being used for DHCP by your router. Then if that's not working try forwarding a different external port to port 80 on the internal server say 32323 and then navigating to http://externalip:32323/ and see if that works on the off chance your ISP is blocking port 80 traffic.``

Guest [Entry]

"Step 1 is to check the Windows Firewall settings on the ""server"" box.

Step 2 is to make sure you have the web site configured for port 80 (if you have more than one site, IIS defaults to other ports)

Step 3 is to wait until this gets auto-migrated to ServerFault.com in case those first two steps don't work out."