First project

broot · June 27th, 2010, 01:12 AM

I can not get the initial project to load. I am on a PC running Vista and using Visual Studio Premium. The browser (IE 8) says it can not display the page and when I click in the "Diagnose" button I am told that I should speak with my ISP. Is that really where I should start to track down a localhost issue (a guess).

Imar · June 27th, 2010, 05:40 AM

Hi there,

No, I don't think your ISP will be able to help you out as this is probably all local.

It sounds like a permission or configuration issue to me. Do you have security software running such as anti-virus or firewall software? Does temporarily stopping these programs fix the problem?

Imar

broot · June 27th, 2010, 10:52 AM

I tried turning off the Windows Firewall. My antivirus is Nod32. I do not know where to look for anything controling ports. I tried to ping localhost and the address was ::1 I just installed VS 2010 and updated Windows the previous day to get any web services installed. 10 years ago I seem to remember having a host file, but, where does it go on a 64 bit Vista PC, and what would I have in it?

Imar · June 27th, 2010, 10:56 AM

The host file is located here: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

However, you probably don't need it.

The ip "address" you get may be an IP V6 address. Is IP V4 installed as well?

And how did you create and browse to this site in VWD?

Imar

broot · June 27th, 2010, 11:06 AM

Yes, IP V4 is installed as well as IP V6. I let VS create the site as I followed your instructions in the book and left the site location to the default.

Imar · June 27th, 2010, 11:11 AM

You said you have anti-virus software, but did you try disabling it? You should be able to choose File | New Website, store the site on a local disk and hit Ctrl+F5 to run it. If that doesn't work, something is blocking this operation.

What happens when you try to browse with a different browser? E.g. right-click Default.aspx, choose Browse With and browse for Firefox for example.

If all else fails, you may want to consider contacting Microsoft supporrt. VS / VWD is a fully supported product so they should be able to help you out,

Cheers,

Imar

broot · June 27th, 2010, 11:15 AM

OK. Thanks. I'll install another browser and see about disabling my antivirus and then, if still not working, call MS.

Imar · June 27th, 2010, 11:26 AM

Good luck and feel free to post follow up questions you may have about this book in this forum. I try to help as many readers as I can with questions, but these type of problems are almost impossible for me to resolve remotely.

If you find a solution, please consider posting an update here as it might help others in the future.

Cheers,

Imar

broot · July 12th, 2010, 05:26 PM

First off, Microsoft would not provide support for this problem.
Next, after 1.5 hours bouncing from one department to another, I arrived back at MSDN support where I had started. The problem was solved, after burning a support case, by changing the host file from an IPv6 address of ::1 to an IPv4 address of 127.0.0.1

Imar · July 18th, 2010, 10:59 AM

Glad it got sorted out, and thanks for posting an update here.

Cheers,

Imar