Unable to browse my webapi form the hosting computer

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Hi Everyone!

I have just started with my webapi project. It runs perfectly fine. I tried hosting it on my IIS6. But when i go to manage website - browse option. It shows error message - "The localhost page cannot be found". What might be the problem?
Please help me out with this.

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I have just started with my webapi project. It runs perfectly fine. I tried hosting it on my IIS6. But when i go to manage website - browse option. It shows error message - "The localhost page cannot be found". What might be the problem? 
Please help me out with this.

Posted 18-Jan-17 21:10pm

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Richard Deeming 19-Jan-17 11:11am

Are you sure you mean IIS6? That version was only available with Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64.

Depending on the version you're using, there are some extra hoops you'll have to jump through to get MVC and WebAPI working in IIS6:
ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6 Walkthrough[^]
ASP.NET MVC 3 Extensionless URLs on IIS 6[^]

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