can't access the local network...

Hi, i have this problem when i try to test a webpage locally going to "http://localhost/name_of_my_page.htm", the browser tries to access the web instead of going to the local network, it was working fine a few days ago, i don't know what happened, anyone has any idea?
I'm using IIS 5.1 on a Windows xp pro OS, i've made sure that it's running too.
Thanks.

I've found out what was going on, it was a browser configuration issue, it had nothing to do with the server, anyway, you learn something new everyday, well at least you should....

What did you have to change in the browser?

please do tell us what you did to fix that problem. I am running into the same issue.

when i am connected to the internet i can't open my localhost. For some reason my IE adds www. and .com to it. and starts looking for it online.

thanks for the help.

Well first go to "Tools - Internet Options" in your IE browser, then click on the "Connections" tab and go to "LAN Settings"
now check the "Bypass proxy server for local addresses" box.
And that's it.

That worked for me, hope it works for you.

thank you for the reply. I tried that and it did not work for me

as a matter of fact when i go to connections and LAN settings i find that the "use a proxy server for your LAN....." checkbox is not checked. So I checked it and made sure that the "bypass proxy server for local addresses" checkbox is checked too.

and tried it many times and it didn't work.

please help me out. I can't seem to work on my localhost when i am connected.

thanks

How do you connect to the internet? dial up?, cable?, cause if you checked the "use a proxy server for your LAN" option, you should provide the address and port of your proxy server, your ISP has to give you that data.
In any event, maybe your ISP can help you out with the local adressess issue.

i dialup to the internet. and i did put the proxy address that the ISP has given me and made sure that the bypass checkbox is checked and yet i still can't seem to have it worked out.

If you dial up, you don't need to configure anything in the "LAN settings" area, LAN Setting don't apply to dial up connections, unless your computer is within a LAN, and i don't think that's the case right?
The only thing i can come up with is to access your localhost offline.
When the conection windows pops up click work offline, i think that option is available.

IT WORKED. thank you thank you thank you

for people who run into this problem in the future. Please go to internet options, click on the connections tab then click on settings (for a dial up connection) then check the "bypass proxy for local addresses" checkbox.

thank you once again