On 29 Mar 2003, Amitay Isaacs wrote:
Try http://ip/
Ending / is important.
Not if the url does not contain any file path. According to RFC2068, if the url passed to a user agent is of the form http://hostname, then the GET request will be made to the / location on hostname server.
About the OP, are you getting a 404 or are you getting those Internet Explorer friendly error messages? If it is the latter, then check to see the actual error response from the server (by doing a telnet on port 80).
Philip