Try this from a command prompt: telnet localhost 80
then if it connects, type GET / HTTP/1.0 and hit enter twice. Paste the output. For instance, mine looks like this: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to newcastle.int.ia. Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:40:31 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.10 with Suhosin-Patch mod_perl/2.0.3 Perl/v5.8.8 Last-Modified: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:22:15 GMT ETag: "3eadb-2d-460fee1e9d3c0" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 45 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html <html><body><h1>It works!</h1></body></html> Reply with the output. I doubt that you're connecting to the web server, but this should determine whether it can be connected to, or if something else is broken. --Matt PS - You don't know if your web browser is set up to talk to a proxy, do you? On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:03 PM, <ravishankar.gundlap...@wipro.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Please see the output mentioned in the attachment. >> >> Request someone to please help me on this as I am not able to > understand what is the error. >> Thanks & Regards, > > To quickly summarize: You mentioned you are entering http://localhost > and getting a "Page Cannot Be Displayed" error. > > This may be a dumb question, byt where are you entering > "http://localhost"? I would assume it's a web browser, but is it a web > browser being run from the same machine you've installed Apache on? > > Yes I am running the web browser from the same machine where I have > installed Apche. > > Also, it would help to know *specifically* what the error is. Is it a > timeout? A DNS lookup error? Something else? there should be more > details, and it would help if you could pass those on. > > I am getting as Page Cannot be displayed. > > Off the top of my head, given that you have Apache running and bound to > port 80, the following seem the most likely: > > Either a) Your browser and your webserver are on two different machines, > so using "http://localhost" is not going to work, since it points to the > machine your browser is on, > > b) "localhost" is somehow not defined on the machine you're using, or > > c) your Apache configuration is incorrect. > > Let me throw in a little tip on asking questions on mailing lists while > I'm here. Details are good. 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