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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 127.0.0.1 a routable IP address

Hi I have a app that I am working on. I have the DNS entry me.myappdomain.com that has dns entry points to 127.0.0.1 When my app starts up, it talks locally to a server I have on each device. I have been asked to use a rout-able IP address but I am…
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Host a windows-based mail server

I am setting up a kiosk that will allow a user to view a client's catalogue and let that user send an email of some item or other to themselves. I'm hosting a windows-based web site, so I want the client to use an email server on the kiosk. Should…
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LocalHost in share path?

I am setting up in a test environment and need to save some paths in a database but dont want to edit the paths when we go to production. My idea being that I could create a share on both servers and use a generic name like LocalHost instead of…
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Apache not running - "refused to connect" error

I am on Mac Yosemite. Apache 2.4.16. My localhost and local sites stopped working. They've been working fine for months now until I tried to update/fix MySQL. I get the following error: This site can’t be reached localhost refused to…
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How to redirect only localhost traffic in IIS 8

I have IIS 8 and I need redirect only localhost requests to one page to another page on the same IIS. I tried it with URL Rewrite module and Conditions but maybe this is wrong way...
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sendmail is not able to send outbound mail

I have set up a server and need sendmail for my Icinga monitoring. I installed sendmail and played around with it. I am not able to send files to a gmail account. My mail log is as follows: Jul 11 16:23:46 li911-131 sendmail[12202]: u6BGNYO4012202:…
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cannot use localhost but 127.0.0.1 works

My usecase is that I manage remote computers using reverse SSH tunneling. This works great as our customer enable the tunnel and I can then log on using it. However, on one machine the tunneling stopped working. ssh -fN -R 9999:localhost:22…
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Ad Hoc Wireless Network Between Vista IIS and Leopard

I am trying to set up an Ad Hoc network between my PC running Vista and my Macbook running Leopard. It's not just the Ad Hoc network though. I have Visual Studio Developer Express and SQL Studio Express running on the PC. When I launch a web…
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What to use as DB Host when installing WordPress?

I am aware of how daft this question seems. I am installing WordPress on two load balanced servers (hardware load balancer), with MySQL set up in Master-Master configuration with an installation on each server. The WordPress installation will be…
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Apache localhost works great, except PHP is not responding

I'm running Apache on Mac, PHP is installed, and I suspect something in the httpd.conf is not correctly set. The symptom: Running PHP files in localhost yields PHP code, nothing else. Running apachectl -D DUMP_HOSTS yields: Permission denied:…
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Apache Sub domain Redirects to LocalHost

I have the following in my httpd.conf file (snippets only): Listen 80 Listen localhost:80 DocumentRoot "c:/web" DirectoryIndex index.html index.php Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all…
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How to test GeoIP .dat librairie in local

I'm on a projet where I have to implement GeoIP on a Redhat Apache instance. For now, i'm only testing the configuration in local. Here it is : GeoIPEnable On GeoIPDBFile PATH_TO_LIB\GeoIP.dat GeoIPEnableUTF8 On …
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Apache refuses to acknowledge my Sites folder

I'm running Apache on a Mac, and all of the sudden http://localhost results in Apache's HTDOCS folder, while for some time now it correctly referred to my Sites folder. Running apachectl -D DUMP_HOSTS yields: (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could…
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Multiple-domains on WAMP localhost

If you're reading my question, thanks, I appreciate your help I'm using Wamp on Windows Vista. I've created 2 project folders: www/project1/ www/project2/ My virtual hosts file looks like this: NameVirtualHost *:80 …
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Website showing localhost?

I recently added a alias and virtualhost to apache on my development machine. Today I stumbled across a website under the domain http://www.circle.nu/. This domain showed my localhost homepage (It's pretty distinctive...) Is there any way this…
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