Found a more elegant solution for you (don't kick yourself too hard).

Disable IPv6 in your network adapter's properties (you likely wont need it for a couple of years yet, and M$FT should have figured it out by then).

This works for both IE and Firefox (without changing Firefox's config).

@Charles I tried this and it did not work, I had to do what I documented in my post. I found out disabling IPv6 on the network adapter did not disable for loopback.

Thanks.

Hi

I have same problem too in vs2008 on vista .

I configured my firefox as you say , its working good

But my system , still not working by localhost .

if you find any solution , please tell to me by my email.

@Saeed This post IS a solution. If you follow it, it works on Vista.

wow ... Thanks a lot Rob! This was happing to me also ... I tried to disable IPv6 in network adapter’s properties as Charles suggested without success ...

Thanks!

@Portella Great, glad I could help. It just shows Vista is in need of a service pack or two.

what about windows xp pro, i have wrong ports in IE and in ASP.NET development server when i load local webpage..

Visual studio 2008 pro..

@Marko Not sure about XP Pro, I have never see issues with VS 2008 and XP Pro.

Wow. Interesting.

I'd be curious to see what Vista's hosts file looks like, though. There should be some IP attached to localhost in there.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\tcpip6\Parameters\DisabledComponents

i did not find the Disables Components in my Parameters. I'm still unable to solve my problem in IE, however, it's working fine in FireFox now

HI!

I have Vista Home Premium too. I still could not make the VSW 2008 work. I have the same problem as Siddique. I don't see any DisabledComponents in my Registry.

Do u know why?

Thanks

on my vista and vs2008 i only have to change in IE from http://localhost:portnum/SomePage.aspx to http://127.0.0.1:portnum/SomePage.aspx and everything works

[...] Ein Leidensgenosse [...]

I found even better way, just comment int system32/drivers/etc/ line containing "[:::1] localhost"

@Michal Great info, I will give it a try on my next Vista install.

thanx Rob Bazinet and michel,better method is comment int system32/drivers/etc/host line containing :::1 localhost

#14 is the best solution.

Comment out the line in the host file with where ::1 is mapped to localhost. Worked straight away.

Fantastic! It saved me a lot of work!

Thanks so much!

@Edson Great to hear. Helping out another person makes having a blog worth it.

Ad an extra : before the '::1' in the line where ::1 is mapped to localhost. Worked straight away.

It Should be :::1 instead of ::1. A little 'bug' in Vista.

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I have Vista SP1

and VS2008

and it works...

and I'm testing

Vista (withou SP) with VS2005 and VS2008

and it works fine!

I think it's depending on Hardware

because one of my friends has the same problem!

Thanks Richard vN.

I was one of the eager adopdters of Vista as I wanted to have some hands-on experience of dev'ing for the OS before it took root and I've had this problem for years.

The simplicity of your solution shows how little I know about IPv6 but like Rob, I was never comfortable with the wholesale disabling of it either.

The amazing thing is that my current installation of Vista was installed from a disc with SP1 slipstreamed in, suggesting that this 'bug' seems to have slipped by M$.

thanks a lot you solved my problem

:::1 instead of ::1

works for me for internet explorer

:-)

Thank you so much! Worked for me, too. To make things perfectly clear, you want to go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc and edit the "hosts" file with Notepad. In my case (running Windows XP Media Center Edition), I commented it out by using a pound sign.

I replaced

127.0.0.1 localhost

with

#127.0.0.1 localhost

I found another little work around that MUCH more usefull.

Download Fiddler and set it up as proxy.

Turn off that Firefox doesn’t use the proxy for localhost and 127.0.0.1 ofcourse. And if you have trouble reaching the server, setup a custom startpage that’s pointing to 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost. :)

This way you can monitor your traffic with the development server and it also gets rid of the problem that it’s slow. ;-)

Greetz

for me, I found that the port that the ASP.net dev server was starting on was different to the one that the browser was trying to connect to.

make sure you check the settings of your dev server (right click the satellite icon -> properties) and check that the port # is the same as the one that gets appended to your url

Andrew, for me this is the exact situation. And I guess there is a bug in VS 2008 because it is trying to start on one port and sees that it is unavailable and then start the instance of the webserver on another port.

Thank you so much guy!

:oD

Thanks guy you really saved my life

You can disable IPV6 against localhost by editing the host file:

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

::1 localhost

Add a # in front of this line to make it a comment. Restart your PC. Good to go.

Thank you so much guy!

localhost <> 127.0.0.1 :)

:::1 instead of ::1

works for me and for internet explorer

:-)

Thanks a lot!

rob,

Thanks Very Much for solving my problem

Donal O Sullivan

I have the similar issue and after testing these solutions I still had the problem. When I configured IIS I had named the Binding for port 80 (default web site) with the fully qualified name for the machine (machine.company.com). I solved the issue by adding a second binding rule to port 80 with host name of localhost.

Excelente solución la de agregar : , agradezco mucho su ayuda!

Oh thaks guys, that change works for me ;)

Saludos

Thanks for this ... strange that this has not been corrected by MS