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I've installed a web server on my system and I need to access this web server through an ad-hoc wifi connection. I'm able to connect to the wifi network and able to ping the host. But I'm not able to do a telnet to port 80. Can you please help me?

I'm using Windows XP Service Pack 3 and I'm connecting from my Laptop which is Windows 7 Enterprise Edition. I found a link in Stackoverflow. But didn't help me much.How to serve a website over a wifi without internet?

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And your system is.... an Apple? Linux? Windows? You're connecting from an iPhone? PS2? Pc? .... Bit light on details here... – BonyT Jun 30 '11 at 9:15
Host is Windows XP SP3 and the client is Windows 7 Enterprise – Apps Jun 30 '11 at 9:17
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If you can ping it, but can't hit port 80, I'd look at firewalls - connectivity is there, but certain ports are blocked, and that's what a firewall does.

Might also want to try connecting to port 80 from the server itself in order to verify that the web server is up and listening, but that's not 100% foolproof (paranoid firewall configs will often block connections from localhost, too).

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I disabled Windows Firewall, but no luck. I'm able to access the web server from the host. My Host system is in a Domain and has a static IP address. Will that be a problem? – Apps Jun 30 '11 at 9:41
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After restarting the server, it all started working fine.

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