localhost not working on cloned server

Efff dd 556 Reputation points
2021-09-23T19:58:43.063+00:00

hello
created an image of a system running iis 8.5 but localhost does not work on the cloned system.
localhost opens fine on the production iis 8.5 server.

turned off firewalls, checked hosts file. i did rename the cloned computer and added to dns, with new name.

binding are 80 and 443 All Unassigned

err connection failed iis

ipv6 is not enabled or configured on the cloned system but the logs show

iis logs have ::1 GET / - 80 - ::1 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+6.3;+WOW64;+Trident/7.0;+rv:11.0)+like+Gecko - 303 0 0 0

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