Novice question: localhost shows wrong directory

I'm wanting to develop in asp en have installed IIS in order to have a local server. Now, http://localhost/ shows the content of MySharedfolder which I use for some eMule downloads.

Clicking in properties of IIS, I can see it's set to C:\Inetpub\ etc. (which I believe is correct) and also in Dreamweaver I confirgured the remote host to this directory.

Can anybody tell me what to do to get the correct directory setting?

Thanks a lot, Ralph

The default IIS root folder is \InetPub\wwwroot for most versions of IIS, what version are you running?

If http://localhost takes you somewhere else, you have made some changes to the virtual directory for your root web site.

I am running V5.1 - Where can I see what the virtual directory setting is? If I go to control panel and open IIS, I can see the website is uploaded correctly.

Thanks Doug!

I managed to get the virtual directory right now: http://localhost/ now shows the files are uploaded

Still a little problem though: when I try to test a page from Dreamweaver, for example index.asp it doesn't find the page and translates the index.asp to http://localhost/TMPcmwa5oe73.asp
Following the instructions of Dreamweaver I click once index.asp to select and then press the F12 key to run it through the server.
I've looked at the URL prefix but nothing appearntly wrong. Any sugestions? Thanks!

Maybe it's a Dreamweaver issue, I don't know that program.

Can this be a permission problem? Getting a little frustrated... I tried the forums on macromedia and aspfree.com but it didn't bring me any further.

In any case... is it important that this works? I mean, I can see the asp-files are correctly being uploaded to my localserver and the pages show correctly if I open them with directly with IE. Would I miss anything important if I just forget about testing it directly from Dreamweaver?

Thanks!

Well, as I said I don't use Dreamweaver so I don't have any idea what you may miss out on.

Surely there is some Dreamweaver support site that could help you with this problem, since from your posts it sounds like IIS and ASP are working properly.

Thanks for your help. If I find the solution I'll post it here. For the moment, I'm first going to make some progress and I'll worry about it again some other time when I don't have deadlines.

Ralph

I got this solved by completely reinstalling IIS and the server confirguration in Dreamweaver. So, don't know what was wrong, but I'm happy. Fact was that I couldn't go on working this way because installing DNS from Dreamweaver wasn't possible either.

I'm happy to hear you got it going