On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Krist van Besien <krist.vanbes...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Thomas Johansson <tcjoh...@riseup.net> wrote: > >> In my Apache documentation, I read somewhere that I could instead try >> http://127.0.0.1. And when I do so, it works fine (i.e. I get to my Inetpub >> folder and can see my web sites and their pages and work as normal). >> According to the same documentation, this would suggest that I "have serious >> DNS problems", but it does not say what I need to do to fix it. And I cannot >> find the answer anywhere on the Apache site either. > > You do indeed have DNS problems. Your computer does not now how to > resolve "localhost" anymore. This is not a problem of apache, and will > not be solved by reinstalling it. You problem is clearly with Vista, > which is why you won't find the answer on the Apache site.
Sometimes Windows will start resolving localhost to an ipv6 address, which has bitten me a few times. -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
