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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 there any program that can send emails from localhost

i just have a laptop with an internet connection, but i keep changing the internet provider. i want to be able to send mails from my laptop to real addresses. i dont want to use smtp. can i configure sendmail, or any other program to send mails from…
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Does localhost resolve to the same thing on virtual and host machines?

If I set up a web server in a virtual machine, will localhost/127.0.0.1 be the same on both the virtual and the host machine?
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localhost times out - Windows Server 2008

I'm having a weird problem accessing a local web site. Web site is mapped to a hostname e.g. example.org The hostname works perfectly on any external machine, but not locally. When trying to access the hostname locally or try and access localhost,…
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Web application in a network environment

I have a web application running on an apache web server on Ubuntu 10.04. The web application can be accessed via a web browser on the server's computer by typing http://localhost/webapp. I want to make this application available in a networking…
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hMailServer - Thunderbird message with a blank body

I've just installed hMailServer and Thunderbird and managed to get them talking to each other. When Thunderbird gets the message from the server (this is all running locally by the way), the subject displays in the list like it should but the body…
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Unable to run php

i am unable to run my php script using the following command : http://localhost/test.php after typing the above command am getting a dialog box to open or save file named as test.php m unable to get through the error.please help !
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connect to apache/ubuntu on vmWare player from windows

I'm running a virtual mashine on my windows 7. In it a ubuntu linux with apache server. How can I get to a site hosted on my ubuntu from windows? Example: Want to get to http://localhost/~user/ from windows
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Apache on localhost: give virtual hosts specific servers name

I ask my question first and below are details of what I have so far trying to solve the thing: On Apache running on localhost, I want to have different virtual hosts that would be accessible through…
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access localhost stopped working after I installed MAMP

I had configured my machine all access localhost I need some accessed "http://*.localhost.com:3000," * - I put the names of some projects and instances. I needed to run a PHP server and installed MAMP Pro, but after I ran the php server can't access…
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Resolve local subdomain on apache for paths within user dir

On Apache 2.2.x I've activated mod_userdir. I used the default setup, so that http://localhost/~name/ will be connect with ~name/public_html/ and a path within public_html, e.g. ~name/public_html/mySite can be reached through…
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Parallels Network Setup -- Localhost goes to host computer

Is there a way to get 127.0.0.1 to route to the host computer (the one running the virtual machine, not the virtual machine itself)? I am supporting a web app that sometimes requires 127.0.0.1 to be the ip address, and NOT the 10.222.54.2 number I…
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php mail() from localhost

I have installed both postfix and mailx, I also tried sendmail. I'm trying to send e-mail from a PHP script using a crontab. The crontab and PHP run fine but the mail won't send I get the following error in the mail.log Jul 31 21:32:31 grimlin…
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One localhost on two PCs

Today I got an idea, that testing my web apps on two different PCs would be even better if they both are near and if I could use my own localhost instead of hosting. i.e.: 1. My ASUS laptop runs Windows 7 and XAMPP for work with localhost. 2.…
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Hosts file entry directed to a directory on localhost

I have a directory setup with a nice error message at http://localhost/blocked/. I'd like to direct entries in my hosts relating to sites I've blocked to that instead of just 127.0.0.1. 127.0.0.1/blocked/ doesn't work. I'm clueless about the host…
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Accessing localhost via IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 very slow

(I've asked this over on stackoverflow already, but thought I'd ask here as well) I'm currently running an ASP.NET application on IIS 7.5 on Windows 7. When I access this application on Internet Explorer (either 6, 7 or 8) it is incredible slow and…
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