>We installed WinNT option pack 4.0 for our IIS in a server with a proxy running. Installation is successful, proxy works well but our local intranet doesn't. We are using the default web site to be our local intranet but we can't make it run. It gives an error URL could not be retrieved; access is denied when trying to invoke http://localhost/ even in the server itself. What are we missing folks? We bought Web Connection and we can't make it useful because of this problem. I already sent an e-mail to west-wind but no reply as of this writing.
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Are you sure the web server is running? Hitting //localhost in a browser running on the server should work if it is. Go into the control panel, then services. Check to see if the "Word Wide Web Publishing Service" is started.

You'll also want to check to see how IIS is configured. Go into Programs, "Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack", then "Microsoft Internet Information Server" and select "Internet Service Manager".

Once it starts up, select the "Default Web Site" off the list on the right. Is it running? If it is, right click and select Properties. Click on the "Home Directory" tab and check to make sure you have "Read" access on it. The local path should be C:\InetPub\wwwroot.