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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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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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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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