Are you trying localhost.com or just localhost? You should be trying http://localhost/
>Thanks Bonnie
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>Yes I tried restarting IIS.
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>When I click on localhost.com which is a url on the "cannot find page" error page it goes out to a site called localhost.com. The web site said I probably got there because of an error and described my problem as probably a miss-configuration of local DNS server. They indicated that I should place a record in my DNS tables for a localhost in my local domain with the address 127.0.0.1.
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>However they did not say how to do this. I looked all through the help files and found nothing.
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>Incidently, Saturday morning Comcast converted my Excite cable connection over to their system. As a result I now have a new ip address, but would not think that should affect the localhost connection.
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>I have thought about reinstalling IIS - however, I am concerned about losing all my current virtual directories that I have set up.
Mark McCasland
Midlothian, TX USA