Localhost site hangs, and don"t know how to troubleshoot

I had numerous sites setup in IIS, all of which draw data from a SQL
Server database. However, they've all just stopped working - the
browser just hangs. At the time, I was just editing the XHTML/CSS of
one of the sites - I did go into the database and alter a field value,
but this couldn't have caused a problem.

I can access www sites fine. I also created a new website in IIS,
with a physical location pointing to a set of flat HTML files, and it
worked fine. However, on trying again this morning, it doesn't work
either.

Thus, I don't know if there's an issue with SQL server, or with IIS,
but I don't know how to troubleshoot, as I have no error message! Any
thoughts?

All I've been able to get is a message from IE saying it couldn't find
the web server localhost, and firefox appears to be tring to access
www.localhost.com when typing 'http://localhost:8080/' into the
address bar.

Thanks,
Iain

Re: Localhost site hangs, and don"t know how to troubleshoot

I restarted the 'World Wide Web Publishing Service' to get IIS going
again, and then I think the issue was probably to do with bad data in
the database causing a never ending loop.

I tried to remove the post from the group, but it said I wasn't
allowed. Is there no way to remove, and also to edit, your posts to
Google groups?