permission to access localhost?

[Susan]

I was having problems with IIS again but don't know why. I uninstalled IIS
and re-installed IIS. I did repair on FP extensions. Now I can open
http://localhost and http://localhost/webname in IE.

But I cannot open localhost within FP. I get message:

You do not have permission to access the Web Foder location
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I did the No-No and then navigated to inetpub wwwroot and could open website
within FP. I figured that if I cannot access localhost, I couldn't break it
much more.

What should I do now? I saw blinking icon saying updates were ready to
install in computer this morning. Is it the updates causing me problems?
Unfortunately don't have history of updates showing in Add/Remove
Programs--latest is back in February.

Any suggestions please.

Thanks,
Susan

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

When you installed IIS / FP Extensions where you logged in as the Administrator and are you logged
as a Administrator when you are using FP?

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[Susan]

Yes, I have not changed anyway I log on. Has updates somehow changed things?

When you installed IIS / FP Extensions where you logged in as the

Administrator and are you logged

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Have you updated to SP2? If yes, had you applied all prior updates first?

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[Susan]

I applied sp2 updates long time ago--history shows around Oct 31. I believe
that I applied all updates first.

 

[Susan]

I logged on as Administrator in Safe Mode with Command Prompt. I tried to
extend the server where the username is domain name\username since in FP the
webs show the modified by as domain name\username.

I get error:
Unable to create IIS AdminBase interface Result-0x8007042c.
Error:-the server instance specified was not found. Please specify the
server's address and port.