title: Connecting to Windows localhost (IIS) from another computer
body: <p>I have a Windows Vista laptop running IIS7 for its localhost. On this machine, I can successfully navigate to:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>"http://localhost"</li>
  <li>"http://127.0.0.1"</li>
  <li>"http://mycpuname"</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>However, I cannot access this localhost website from another computer on the same network. Ideally I would be able to visit "http://mycpuname" (so that I can hard-code a connection), but at this point I might settle for the IP address of the machine (http://192.000.000.xyz)</p>
  
  <p>I've seen similar questions asked here and elsewhere on the internet... but none of the posts seems to fix the issue for me.</p>
  
  <p>Things I've tried:
   - adding exceptions to Windows Firewall to allow TCP ports 80 and 8080
   - disabling Windows Firewall entirely
    - running the "netsh" commands in <a href="http://programming-girl.blogspot.com/2010/03/cant-access-localhost-using-ip-address.html" rel="noreferrer">this post</a></p>
  
  <p>Additionally, I am looking at the IP address on the Windows laptop by running "ipconfig" from the command prompt. Oddly enough, trying to access "http://192.000.000.xyz" from the Windows laptop doesn't seem to work...</p>
  
  <p>I have also tried restarting IIS and restarting my machine.</p>
  
  <p>Help?</p>