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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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IPTables configuration for Localhost

I have a problem in connecting a JIRA instance running on a cloud server to an instance of MySQL running on the same box. I have configured it previously using quite a few iptables rules, but it seems overly broad/terribly inprecise. I want access…
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whats the point of @localhost entries for a mail server

After recently setting up a mail server I am now adding the users that I need. As part of the tutorial I followed I created root@localhost as an account and also a bunch of aliases (postmaster@localhost, webmaster@localhost etc). What is the point…
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What software can I use to link my public domain to my dynamically changing local computer IP?

Any free websites/software that might be recommended?
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windows server 2003, IIS and localhost

I need to work with the localhost from inside the server in order to run things as schedules. On my workstation with the regular IIS I have 1 webserver with a lot of sites as aliases. In my server I have a website: (example) www.web.com I thought…
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problems installing mysql and phpmyadmin to localhost

I know there have been many similar questions, but as far as I can tell, most of the other people have gotten further than I have... I'm trying to get a WAMP setup happening. I've got PHP and Apache running and talking to each other. PHP is in…
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Let other computer view my localhost over a network

I have apache and what not running on my local machine (mac), there also another mac on the local network. How does this other machine access my localhost? For example I have a local website at example.local.net in my vhost. How can another…
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Problems pointing site to site in Hosts file

I'm on my localhost PC. I need to add an entry that maps our public site to our dev server. I tried several things with no luck: 192.168.1.40 oursite.com // where the IP here is our internal dev server or devserver oursite.com oursite.com…
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Tomcat cannot connect to MySQL on localhost

I have deployed an application on my Tomcat server with JDBC resources defined. What is puzzling me is that I can connect to the database (which is running locally on the server) only using the server's IP. When I change the resource host to…
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Sharing Localhost on Network in Windows 7

Basically - I am producing a website and I am trying to share the "localhost" port on 2 computers. Basically, when I build the project I just want to also be able to access it on both computers via the same port. Currently, I cant seem to be able to…
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Is it possible to configure Apache for several local host?

I want to tests to sites locally. It is good for me to have two configuration sections in Apache. I tried ... ... But when I type in browser 127.0.0.2, it…
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Apache keeps resetting while testing on localhost

I'm getting errors while testing web pages on localhost. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit. I'm not using Wamp or Xampp. This is what the error.log tells me (I've highlighted the errors in question): [Sat Mar 06 05:10:55 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.14…
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Accessing localhost using ip

I am running google app engine locally and it runs on port 8080. I can access it from the browser using 'localhost:8080' or '127.0.0.1:8080'. But I cannot access it using the ip of the machine even locally. Any pointers? Update:Solved it by binding…
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Cannot connect to website through reverse proxy on local network

I'm having this strange issue. I have a local network running a server with my gitlab instance and some webpages. The configuration of my reverse proxy is following: server { server_name my.website.com; location / { proxy_pass…
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All tcp ports are not reachable on localhost (MacOS 13.4)

A friend of mine asked for help, basically any app listening on some local tcp port on localhost can't be reached. For example a node.js server running on port 8080 or 3000. Executing the command sudo lsof -i -P | grep LISTEN | grep 8081 gives: node…
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Wamp server giving "It works!" on going to http://localhost

This is for a friend of mine. When he installed WAMP server, it installed perfectly. And then when he goes to http://localhost there is only 1 message that is displayed in the browser which is It Works! It does not display the WAMP homepage at all !…
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