Web Service Registration

[dformica]

My Windows 2003 server has Coldfusion 7 and IIS 6.0 installed.
I have a website with url example.com I can access Coldfusion administrator with URL: https://www.example.com/cfide/administrator/index.cfm
I’m trying to register the a web service with the URL of the website hosted in this box to allow an outside client to consume it, but It would not allow me to register/call web services hosted in the same server box with the web site’s URL or public IP. The only way I can register the web service is by using the local IP.
When I try registering with the URL or public IP I keep getting: “Error creating web service. Please ensure that you have entered a correct Web Service name or URL”
I have been investigating for days now and have not come up with a solution. Do you have any ideas on what could be causing this behavior?

[Guest]

Can you cfhttp to a URL on the machine? If not, perhaps you have firewall or router rules preventing a machine from calling to itself. It is not that unusual - check with your network admins.