Saturday, August 15, 2009

Internet Explorer Cannot Display The Webpage - ASP.NET Development Server Error

So I was running Visual Studio 2008 on my new laptop, which runs Vista, and when I created a brand new web site, when I tried to run it, I got the following error message:

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage



Ack! What could be wrong. Well, after a little internet searching, I found the cause and the solution, which was buried just a little bit under someone else's cause and solution.

Here's the link and an excerpt:

http://forums.asp.net/p/1235447/2247054.aspx#2247054

"My solution was removing the next line in the windows host file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

::1 localhost

This is an IpV6 entry. Put a # in front of it."


What caused my problem was the ::1 entry in the host file. Once I commented that out, all was right with the world again. I didn't have to do anything else (I wasn't even running that antivirus that the other guy was complaining about).

Good stuff. Thanks, Arien!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I had this problem also and the above fix worked great! However, note that in order to edit the specified file, you need to right-click on it, select security, and change the settings to insure you have full access to it (otherwise you get an error when you try to alter the file). Thanks!

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