can any one help i'm trying to set my machine (vista ultimate) up as a web server, locally at first.

i have iis installed made a web page and placed it in the correct place on the c drive.

when typing http://localhost/index.html in a web browser the page comes up fine, but when my machines ip address is typed into another machine nothing.

running a wireless network no dhcp and turned off the firewall which was no help.

hope any one has an awnser.

Thanks

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13 hours ago

it's inside my network private static ip, nat/pat running on the router for the global address. its only internally im interested at the moment.

completed ccna

This sounds like the classic firewall problem. When you say you shut off the firewall do you mean a firewall/router on your network or the Windows built-in one? Just in case, go take a look at the firewall rules of the built-in. Take a look at the Windows Firewall in your Control Panel.

Next thing I'd check is to see if the server is listening on the static IP you assigned to the machine. You didn't say which web server you are using. If you installed apache before you set up the static IP it may miss it completely. So I'd go check the web server config file and see if it is bound to that network IP address.