Hello everyone,
I have an Application Server App (web edition) that a client was trying to run on Windows XP (SP3), it does seem to run but no browser or client application seem to be able to connect to it?
I tried the same on a WinXP VM on my Mac and it has the same problem exactly. Just to mention that desktop apps have no problem.
Do I need to do something special for XP? Is there something missing that I need to add? Is it simply not running?
does the customer have the Windows firewall active on the win XP computer? That would prevent anyone from accessing the web app hosted on that computer. (I am assuming that he is testing from a different computer than the host computer)
If he does, then he can either disable it entirely or open the ports necessary for the web app access. By the way, this is true on any version of Windows.
If he is testing on the host computer, then it is possibly an antivirus utility blocking access to the web app locally. Have the customer try with the AV disabled. If that test is conclusive, he may be able to tweak the AV such that it will let the web app alone. Or he may have to use a different AV utility…
Thank you Louis.
No. No windows firewall enabled. And the initial test is done on the same computer.
Now I will check if any antivirus is installed (I doubt it though). I will also run my VM to check if there is any antivirus that might be causing the problem in this case…
Many different AV will cause the issue. I tried at least a dozen that do… and even the solution that I settled upon caused the issue for others on the forum.
Thanks everyone for your input. I think that there is something is missing in the Windows installation. I built a simple empty web project (with only a label on a page). I run it, Could not connect to it.
I will try again tomorrow and let you know what happens.