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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 Safe to open a liveserver on localhost:8080 for my website on public wifi?

Like mentioned in the title I want to work on my website in a Starbucks with Public wifi is there any risk of running a live server on public wifi?
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What happens to sent emails from localhost without internet connection?

we're building a webshop that will serve as a kiosk on a fair. The fair visitors stop by and order some things at the shop. We'll have some Tablets where the visitors can shop through our kiosk and order some stuff. Hardware: we'll have a local…
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Test ansible role on localhost

How can you test(-run) an ansible role on your localhost? So far I have done this on my ubuntu 16.04 machine: $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible $ sudo apt-get…
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Why do the port change when sending TCP data on localhost

I'm new to network programming and I'm starting simple. I got 2 simple python scripts both running on my machine, a server and a client, the client sends some data using the port 80 and the server listens on the port 80 and prints the data and…
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Unable to ssh localhost without password despite proper perms, key in authorized_keys

I have a key ~/.ssh/id_rsa and I added the pub key to my authorized keys: cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys I also changed my permissions to 600: sudo chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys I checked and /etc/ssh/sshd_config is set for…
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How to backup database on localhost when cannot connect to MySQL?

I'm having 'HY000/2002): connection refused' issue with Lampp on Linux Mint on localhost. It just started to act this way with no known reason. I've spent hours to fix the problem, no solution yet. So I decided to backup my databases, and re-install…
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Conflict with Chrome and RFC2606

RFC2606 states the following for the "localhost" tld: The ".localhost" TLD has traditionally been statically defined in host DNS implementations as having an A record pointing to the loop back IP address and is reserved for such use. Any other…
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Linux: setup development localhost editable environment (permissions issue)

I have an Ubuntu distribution with a localhost setup in /var/www/html/mysite working properly. The problem I have is, when I edit files in this folder, I must do as root or www-data which is not completely ok, as I have to run every mkdir with sudo…
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bad localhost resolution on linux

$ dig @127.0.0.1 localhost $ dig @127.0.0.1 localhost. ;localhost. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: localhost. 604800 IN A 127.0.0.1 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: localhost. 604800 IN NS localhost. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: localhost. …
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Too large 127.0.0.1 connections with nginx - apache2

I use nginx as proxy-server apache2 and I have a problem with netstat output: $ netstat -ntu | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n 5 109.195.36.169 6 109.195.33.205 8 194.190.59.4 14 83.246.143.75 19 109.195.33.201 725…
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OS X 10.10 Localhost Environment using nginx, mysql, and php via Homebrew

I am running Mac OSX 10.10 Yosemite with homebrew. I was using a localhost environment using MAMP and I wanted something that was less of a resource hog and without all the bloated extras. I have installed nginx, mysql and php56 with php-fpm and…
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Why does mail always come from @localhost on my ubuntu server from exim4?

I have an up-to-date Ubuntu Server (14.04.01) and want to be able to send out status e-mails. I've also got 2 other computers running Debian Sid. I have exim4 installed on all 3. I've gone through "sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" on all 3 of…
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Can't access localhost on a VM Windows Server 2012 Azure

Hi I'm new to VM Technology. I have a Microsoft Bizspark Account with Azure on it. I created a Virtual Machine, Windows Server 2012 and installed Xampp on it. Yeah I know it would be better to use IIS but I want to use Xampp. I will use PHP. So…
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IIS7 localhost default location troubles

new member here and am stuck with an IIS7 issue. I'm running Windows Server 2008 with IIS7 and my sites are located under C:\inetpub\wwwroot. I have a few sites running with host headers on there but my problem is that when I type in the IP to the…
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Setting up Virtual Hosts in XAMPP on Windows

I'm having trouble setting up some virtual hosts using XAMPP. The machine name is server02.bb.net and is only accessible on the Intranet. I want other machines on the network to be able to see the virtual hosts I want to created. I need…
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