On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
There should be a hosts file somwhere buried under your windows directory...you could try adding an entry to explicitely map localhost to 127.0.01. I think the file is at C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, but can't verify on Vista. Anyway, if you find it, you can add a line like: 127.0.0.1 localhost and save it (you'll need admin rights, I think). Hope that helps, -Brian -- Feel free to contact me using PGP Encryption: Key Id: 0x3AA70848 Available from: http://pgp.mit.edu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
