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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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How do I use my computer as a host for a website - given my IP is static?

I search online a lot for this but I was not able to find out how. My ISP gave me a static IP address. Now, I connected this ISP Line to a DLink DIR-850L and then put a LAN cable from the router to my system. I assigned a local static IP to my…
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localhost domain bypasses /etc/hosts file

I'm trying to create a development environment with .localhost as the FQDN. I'm using Local by Flywheel which is basically MAMP, its a GUI which lets me create vagrant boxes. I can create a site such as example.dev and point it to my local IP…
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Postfix google network is not reachable from server but its reachable with same configs on local

This is my main.cf # See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version # Debian specific: Specifying a file name will cause the first # line of that file to be used as the name. The Debian default # is…
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How *much* server resources needed to make a *decent* cross-browser testing server

In my company we need to test our website (that we develop), On many browsers including: IE6 IE7 IE8 Safari Firefox 2 Firefox 3 Chrome This is a very time consuming task since we test it in many computers. I thought it's good to make a server for…
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App running in subdirectory but needs 8080 port access, can't figure out reverse proxy

I'm very new to managing a server, so please bear with me. I have a cloud server from Microsoft Azure (not by choice) running Ubuntu 16.04 and Apache 2.4.18. I have multiple apps (/omeka, /wordpress, etc) running in web subdirectories that I can…
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localhost port 8080 doesn't respond but using 127.0.0.1:8080 does work

When I try to access locahost:8080, I get The localhost page isn’t working localhost didn’t send any data. ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE but if I try: 127.0.0.1:8080, I get the response I'm looking for I believe this has something to do with the httpd…
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How do I force localhost resolution to be 127.0.0.1 instead of ::1?

I'm running Windows 10 x64 and I have a legacy application that doens't work fine with localhost being translated to ::1, but instead it works for 127.0.0.1. How do I force Windows 10 to resolve localhost to 127.0.0.1? I've already edited the hosts…
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How can I see what is utilizing my localhost interface?

I have a webserver that has almost 4mbps of sustained traffic on the localhost interface. How can I tell what is causing that?
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Local web app not resolving localhost

I have a local web site called http://localhost.example.com but now when I try to open it in a web browser it redirects me to http://www.example.com. This used to work before. What I changed in the system was the configuration of AWS CLI and the…
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How can I set up another alias like "localhost" to point to a folder within htdocs?

So I have xampp running, localhost or 127.0.0.1 will take me to htdocs within my xampp folder. Is there a way I can use a similar name such as localhost2 on the same machine to take me to folder, lets say its called localhost2, within htdocs. The…
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haproxy with SSL in front of apache for local development

I work on a web app that regularly makes AJAX calls to a REST server that (in production) is accessed via the same domain. While developing locally, I have been redirecting REST calls to a dev server using haproxy to get around browser cross origin…
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Accessing Localhost Port Over a Local Network

Both localhost and 192.168.0.199 both resolve to the same page in my web browser (they both redirect to localhost/xampp/ and 192.168.0.199/xampp/ respectively). But when I try not to access my web service,…
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How to connect to a service on a local network machine whch which only listens to localhost?

I have a service which only listens to localhost on port 7400. There is a service running on a windows and an ubuntu machine on a private network. How can another computer on the same network communicate with those services? I have read that…
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postfix allow localhost only local users

I have a little problem. I am offering some clients access to my server in order to execute own scripts (of course in their own chroot environment, etc...). The problem which occured today: Some people gain telnet access to localhost on port 25 and…
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What is the 'play' host?

I tested the following on a Ubuntu machine. The command ping play results in PING play (127.0.53.53) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 127.0.53.53: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.029 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.53.53: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.036 ms 64…
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