The device or resource (localhost) is not set up to accept connections on port "The World Wide Web service (HTTP)"

The device or resource (localhost) is not set up to accept connections on port "The World Wide Web service (HTTP)".

I have windows 7 , down开发者_开发问答loaded the iis platform from microsoft. I did it more than once. the bad news, it worked a few days ago .... today my inetpub/wwwroot is compeletly empty the service is running and in the firewall World Wide Web Services (HTTP) is allowed for private

Have you got port 80 open in the firewall? Make an exception for that port and see if that does the trick.

Please check the ff. (run IIS manager):

• IIS is running.
• Application pool assigned to the site is running
• The Site itself is started.

I encountered this error myself and been banging my head on the wall. The third item is the one that caused my problem (it is stopped).