Open with notepad the hosts file located at
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
You will see a line like this:
::1 localhost
So by 'localhost', Windows Vista understands the IPv6 address.
Try to add, before that line, this one:
127.0.0.1 localhost
If you have the UAC (Use
Thanks everyone! I tried all your suggestions and the one that sort-of
worked was "http://127.0.0.1:8080";. (The other urls just gave the same
error page.)
The funny thing is that 127.0.0.1 didn't give me the xwiki page, it gave
me the page of *another* wiki that I'm simultaneously evaluating
When you get http://localhost.com you just forgot to enter http://
this is a nasty behavior of Windows or IE (I am not sure).
If everything else fails you can either:
edit the hosts file (somwhere in /Windows/System32/..) and add
localhost.com 127.0.0.1
or just use 127.0.0.1 instead
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Meilin Wong wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I installed XWiki using the standalone install on my Vista64 machine
> and it looks like the XWiki server starts up fine (using the
> start_xwiki.bat batch file). However when I try to access
> http://localhost:8080 with my brow
Meilin Wong wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I installed XWiki using the standalone install on my Vista64 machine
> and it looks like the XWiki server starts up fine (using the
> start_xwiki.bat batch file). However when I try to access
> http://localhost:8080 with my browser, I keep getting errors as if
Hi all,
I installed XWiki using the standalone install on my Vista64 machine
and it looks like the XWiki server starts up fine (using the
start_xwiki.bat batch file). However when I try to access
http://localhost:8080 with my browser, I keep getting errors as if there
is no web server or wi