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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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Running localhost webapp projects under domain name using fiddler2

I have a Tomcat server running on my local dev machine(running Windows8) & I use fiddler2 to assign an alias to localhost as my domain name (www.mydomainName.com), so my application webpages open in the browser like this: …
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howto serve different local index page with multiple virtualhosts

Objective: do http://test.local and get the index from testsite, do http://l4.dev and serve the index from lara4. What I don't want is the first index from the virtual host listing it can find How should multiple local sites be managed? - best…
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Why does 127.0.0.1 point to virtual host?

I have a Virtual Host set up in apache to run CodeIgniter: DocumentRoot "/var/www/CodeIgniter" ServerName codeigniter.loc Problem is, when I point my browser to 127.0.0.1, I'm getting the CodeIgniter home…
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Changing php.ini location for localhost

I'm using localhost to run a website locally; my problem is that I can't get the correct php.ini to load. I have set the Directory and DocumentRoot fields in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default, and restarted the apache2 server. But running…
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APACHE httpd.conf error

I have recently installed the latest Apache. It is working fine through localhost:80 and through 10.0.0.51:80, but I can't connect through [External IP]:80. I have forwarded ports correctly, but I don't know if it has something to do with the…
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tunnel to a webserver with putty and access apache there as if from localhost

I have a webserver with a htaccess rule that permits only contact to a webservice from 127.0.0.1 (I cannot change this). I already configured putty to make a tunnel to that webserver and when I enter localhost:port in my browser I see the page…
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Why does localhost not work on Windows Server 2008 R2?

Why does navigation to localhost not work on Windows Server 2008 R2? The expected result is the IIS application hosted on the machine in question to be returned. Navigation to localhost/mySite returns a 404 however using machineName/mySite returns…
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How to reach localhost on windows7 computer with a smartphone through wifi router?

How to reach localhost on windows7 computer with a smartphone through wifi router? Only through wifi, so people shouldn't access it. I'll be appreciated if you can help me
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Associate a site from localhost to a domain

So I have a website, like http://website.com. I also have a "back-up" (development version) of this website on my computer (localhost), including the database and everything. The problem with this back-up is that I have to change all the script…
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Problem with installing apache

I get this when I install the apache on windows: only one usage of each socket address is normally permitted. :make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 Note that I had visual studio 2010 installed on it..and developed an asp.net site on this…
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install lamp on ubuntu 11.04 desktop - localhost not working

I just ran sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ on my Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop computer to get my localhost server up and running. Now when I type in localhost to my web browser it only shows .html files that are in the var/www/ folder and not php. When I…
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Xampp LAMP server: localhost:80 requires a username and password

I would installed xampp in my system but when i try to run my localhost following message will appear "The server localshost:80 requires a username and password.please help
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wamp - What is the 'root' user, and why does it appear under localhost and '127.0.0.1'?

I created a new db in WAMP, and I note that under the 'Privileges' tab that list the users I have one user that I didn't create, named 'root'. What is it? It is listed twice, once under 'localhost' and once under '127.0.0.1'. I understand that…
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Setup localhost on home computer as remote server

Recently I have finished a PHP project that I have tested on my home computer using WAMP. I dont have any hosting online and would like to make my localhost remotely accessible. For example, I want to make it possible for someone on the internet to…
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"[Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'net'" when trying to use Ansible localhost to connect to a Windows Shared Folder

I am unable to use Ansible localhost (Linux) to connect to a shared folder on a Windows Server. I am getting [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'net'. However, I have checked that my file path to the shared folder is correct, so I am not sure how…
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