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Localhost is an address/term used for testing connection to the local host (current computer) used for some network troubleshooting

localhost (all lowercase) (meaning this computer in computer networking) and is the standard hostname given to the loopback network interface.

IPv4

Under IPv4 the standard localhost address is normally assigned to:

127.0.0.1

IPv6

In full notation, the address under IPv6 is:

0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1
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Is it a security risk to run a local node server next to public web api?

I am currently running a public web api that runs on PHP. I was thinking of adding a local node server with which the PHP can interact. It would allow me to do stuff like passing off long running operation to node, allowing me to respond to the user…
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Is it possible to have full SSL security on localhost services?

I've been reading a lot about SSL certificate as of late and trying to get my localhost services to have SSL certificates to avoid warnings and whatnot. These services are 100% local, their ports are NEVER exposed to the outside. I understand that…
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How to mirror aws ec2-instance (production) to my local ubuntu desktop

i have aws ec2-instance live server (which runs on drupal CMS), i want to make a staging server for that live on my local ubunut desktop
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Create DNS for a wilcard subdomain that is localhost

I'm trying to create DNS for wildcard subdomains that run on localhost. It's not working. The main domain is fine but the sub domains are pointing to an external server instead. Here's what I have: In /etc/named.conf: zone "typeflex" IN { type…
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Mongod service running but not connecting in browser

Background: Using vagrant virtual box running Ubuntu on a macbook Having installed the mongoid gem in a new rails application I am given localhost:27017 as the port that the mongodb server is running on. From the command line, I am able to…
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localhost send SYN to localhost not receiving ACK

My server setup is nginx directly connects to a node.js server (nginx and node.js are in the same node and nginx is forwarding request to node.js: 127.0.0.1:8000). The symptom is sometimes there are some 504 logs in nginx log. And node.js log…
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Proxying only subdomains of localhost

I'm trying to figure out how to proxy requests to subdomains of localhost to another port on Apache, but not proxy requests only to localhost (with no subdomains). I can't get it to work. Here is what I have come up with so far. …
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Is 127.0.0.1 a routable IP address

Hi I have a app that I am working on. I have the DNS entry me.myappdomain.com that has dns entry points to 127.0.0.1 When my app starts up, it talks locally to a server I have on each device. I have been asked to use a rout-able IP address but I am…
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Host a windows-based mail server

I am setting up a kiosk that will allow a user to view a client's catalogue and let that user send an email of some item or other to themselves. I'm hosting a windows-based web site, so I want the client to use an email server on the kiosk. Should…
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LocalHost in share path?

I am setting up in a test environment and need to save some paths in a database but dont want to edit the paths when we go to production. My idea being that I could create a share on both servers and use a generic name like LocalHost instead of…
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Apache not running - "refused to connect" error

I am on Mac Yosemite. Apache 2.4.16. My localhost and local sites stopped working. They've been working fine for months now until I tried to update/fix MySQL. I get the following error: This site can’t be reached localhost refused to…
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How to redirect only localhost traffic in IIS 8

I have IIS 8 and I need redirect only localhost requests to one page to another page on the same IIS. I tried it with URL Rewrite module and Conditions but maybe this is wrong way...
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sendmail is not able to send outbound mail

I have set up a server and need sendmail for my Icinga monitoring. I installed sendmail and played around with it. I am not able to send files to a gmail account. My mail log is as follows: Jul 11 16:23:46 li911-131 sendmail[12202]: u6BGNYO4012202:…
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cannot use localhost but 127.0.0.1 works

My usecase is that I manage remote computers using reverse SSH tunneling. This works great as our customer enable the tunnel and I can then log on using it. However, on one machine the tunneling stopped working. ssh -fN -R 9999:localhost:22…
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Ad Hoc Wireless Network Between Vista IIS and Leopard

I am trying to set up an Ad Hoc network between my PC running Vista and my Macbook running Leopard. It's not just the Ad Hoc network though. I have Visual Studio Developer Express and SQL Studio Express running on the PC. When I launch a web…
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