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Re-establish route to localhost on Windows Vista
route -f
How do you re-establish a route to localhost after this? I can re-establish connections to the Internet via wireless using
route add {wirelessgateway} {wirelessip} if {wirelessif}
route add ...
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Multiple Apache Servers with Multiple Virtual Servers
I have one computer.
I am running two instances of 2 differently installed Apache servers.
1 via WAMP
1 via Zend Framework
I wish for wamp to be connected towards "karl.local"
And for Zend to be ...
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Import a local SQL File To a Remote Server Using SSH Tunnel
I have a connection between my localhost and a remote server using putty SSH tunnel.
Thats fine.
Now I need a command to get the sql file on my local machine i.e. c:\folder\test.sql and import it ...
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Chrome and Firefox can reach localhost; Internet Explorer 9 can't. Why?
The title is pretty self explanatory. I have a Windows 7 environment with IIS7 installed. I'm sure this is the result of me mucking around with settings at some point. Trying to avoid a fresh ...
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How popular OSes handle localhost connections?
Is there any noticeable overhead when sending data? Or systems are smart enough to optimize it and it's practically as fast as coping data within RAM?
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how to get localhost to work correctly again on Lion
Anything that asks for something via localhost fails. I can't get any result from pinging localhost. The only way I can reach anything in my network would be to resort to connecting to my ...
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PHP code is returned instead of executed
I have L-Ubuntu 11.04. I've installed Apache2 and I'm trying to simulate a server on my local file system by navigating to localhost in the browser.
The problem is that I can't seem to get php to ...
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500 internal server error when accessing a project through localhost on wamp/apache
I installed wamp. I wanted to use Apache HTTP server instead, so deleted it. But wasn't sure if i deleted it properly. So I installed Apache HTTP server, and in the bottom right of screen where it ...
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Connecting to localhost with smartphone: possible?
I am currently developing a mobile PHP project on localhost (or, to be more precise, a locally hosted website reachable at http://azgoth/) on my desktop computer and wish to check out how the design ...
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Can you do “ping %localhost%”?
I would like to be able to ping whatever machine name I am in without first having to do:
localhost
Can I do something like the following?
ping %localhost%
When I do:
ping localhost
the IP ...
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Difference between usr/local/mysql and mamp directories
Quick question about MySQL and MAMP
I am looking to get comfortable using MySQL, so I downloaded MySQL Workbench, and also MySQL package for OSX 10.6. I also have MAMP, which I use for testing my ...
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How to share my localhost over the internet?
I really want to share my localhost over the internet to show my friends the progress of the website we're working on, so that I don't need to upload it to the public server each time I make a change.
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does http://localhost/myapp from a desktop PC on a Windows network go through network firewall?
I am trying to find out if the (hardware) firewall on our network would be scanning packets when I type this in a browser window:
http://localhost:51502/myapp.
Would "localhost" packets be ...
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Why is there a difference between ping “localhost” and ping “local IP address”?
Using cmd and ping on Windows gave me the following results:
Pinging "localhost":
Pinging "192.168.0.10" (local IP address):
Aren't both situations exactly the same?
I mean, I'm pinging ...
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Accessing localhost on my iPhone
I've found similarly titled questions, but none that directly address my issue. I'm running Google App Engine server on my Macbook, and it was configured to use port 8080 on localhost. And so anytime ...
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Accessing local sites from IE10 Metro mode
I've just installed the Windows 8 Consumer Preview to test my websites in IE 10.
I'm running the Win8CP in a virtual machine in Parallels 7, on my MacBook Pro (OS X Lion 10.7.2).
I haven't installed ...
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Isn't localhost simply 127.0.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)?
I tried telnet localhost on Mac OS X Lion, and this is the output I got.
Trying ::1...
telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address ...
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sudo su and ssh localhost are failing
When I try to do sudo su
I get the following errors.
sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0777, should be 0440
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
I tried following the post ...
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How can I use my own, external IP instead of localhost with Glassfish?
I am using Glassfish v3 to develop couple of servlets. For testing the servlets the localhost:8080/MyServlet is working fine. But whenever I am using IP instead of localhost, its returning an error, ...
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win7 hide localhost from other users
I want to be logged into a clouddrive (y:) via a desktop app. on biz-user-pc and not have the localhost 127.0.0.1 folder be seen or accessible in family-user-pc on same computer. I'm running ...
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Running Parallels on Mac - how can I access localhost on Mac server from Windows?
I'm running Parallels on my Mac. I have a web server set up on the Mac side, so I edited my Mac hosts file and now on any Mac browser, I can access lmiv.crunchy:8080 and the web page comes right up.
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How Do I Access localHost From VMware when even the computer isn't accessible from the network
There are several threads regarding accessing host's localhost from a guest OS. None attracts my specific problem, therefor IMHO this question isn't a duplication.
I did follow all the steps appear ...
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Trying to access localhost mamp from iPad
I want to visit my localhost that is being served by mamp on my iPad to do some testing. All the places I looked online say just to visit ip:8888.
This results in Safari showing a "server stopped ...
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Open port in Window 7 for local client-server development and debugging
I am writing a C# console application for Windows 7 that can send and listen to packets (client or server). Since I only have one computer, I will have to debug and test my code locally.
I first ...
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Apache suddenly stops serving to LAN computers, now only localhost
TLDR: Apache WAS serving pages to LAN computers, but suddenly only works on localhost.
Background info:
(I discovered the WAMP, XAMPP, etc packages a day after) I built a WAMP server individually, ...
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read localhost mail and send to locahost using Mail.app (or any other std mail client app)
I want to read the localhost mail on Mail.app. Currently I just type mail on the command line.
If I can read "localhost" mail on my Mail.app, then can I send (or move mail from other accounts, e.g. ...
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Why does my “hosts” file entry have no effect when accessing network shares?
I added the following line to a Windows7 hosts file:
127.0.0.1 mecserver
Using ping mecserver works fine, but if I use this name to connect to the notebook (like localhost) to see the Windows ...
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using ssh tunnel to access localhost remotely
I'm having a lot of trouble using SSH tunnel to access my local host. I have been using the below and can't access my locahost over the web like this.
ssh -nNt -vg -g -R :9999:localhost:8080 ...
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Host-only network with multiple VMs
What I'm trying to do is create a host-only network with multiple VMs so as to allow direct access between the host OS and the VMs, but to also allow the VMs limited access to the Internet for things ...
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Mac OS X 10.7 can't ping/telnet localhost
I'm developing using django/postgresql on Mac OS X 10.7 and suddenly I am unable to access the test server through http://localhost:8000/. I can make it listen on 0.0.0.0:8000 and then it works...
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Connecting to mysql on localhost using external hostname
I'm trying to connect to my server using the external IP Address...
This works from an external machine but not from the machine which is running mysql.
This is annoying as I would like to use the ...
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How to prevent Firefox converting 'localhost/*' URLs into search queries?
Since upgrading from Firefox 3.6.x, my address bar has a quirk that never used to be there. When I type in, for example:
localhost/my_dir/index.php
Firefox turns it into a search query, my search ...
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Make my Virtual Machine invisible to outside world
I am a total newbie to installing and working on server platform. Just to see how things work I went ahead with installing Ubuntu Server (LAMP) 11.10 on Virtualbox installed on a Ubuntu 11.10 desktop ...
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How can I make localhost resolve to 127.0.0.1 instead of ::1?
When I ping localhost the address resolves to the ipv6 loopback of ::1
My MySQL and Apache installations expects the ipv4 address of 127.0.0.1
How can I configure my WindowsXP to resolve localhost ...
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How can I block external access to my local Apache test server on OS X?
I use the built-in Apache 2 that comes with OS X (10.6.8 in my case) for development. I've been looking in access logs and seen I'm constantly poked from outside by nosy bots. I'd like to make it stop ...
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How can I publicly access 127.0.0.1 through my network IP address?
I have a lot of servers running under my localhost (127.0.0.1), and I also my vhosts file creating some neat aliases.
But unfortunately I can't access it outside my computer, like for testing on ...
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On Windows 7, how can I retrieve/set system (not administrator) password?
Ok, so I know on many unix variants, you can set up a root / admin user, a standard user, etc. And by default sometimes on some distros of Linux the 'root' superuser is known to have a default ...
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WAMP not working on Windows 7 64bit
I just installed the latest WAMP on windows 7 64bit. The installation was successful but now WAMP doesn't open. It says 'Aestan Tray Menu has stopped working' and when I click on 'Close Program' it ...
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Is it possible to get communication work both ways in Virtual Box with NAT (not bridged) on Windows 7 host?
I have set up a virtual machine with Virtual Box. But I cant ping the virtual machine from the host Windows 7 if I have NAT on the virtual machine.
I know it works with bridged but I would like it to ...
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Able to ping localhost, but cannot connect via my browser
I've seen similar questions, but couldn't find any answers for my problem.
I'm using Windows 7 and Wamp for website development, and it was working fine until a couple of days ago. Now it won't let ...
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Password protecting the hosts file [closed]
Is it possible to password protect system files that still need to be used by the system? More specifically I would like to password protect the hosts file. Yes, it's that bad. I know that there ...
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Mac OS X Lion cannot resolve localhost
I have found serval questions about this but no one helps for me, I am searching for
days to get my problem solved but I can't get it done, I hope someone can help
me with this big issue.
I try to ...
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http://localhost:8080 is not working on running apacher Server through XAMPP
I am unable to configure a PHP/MySQL/Apache environment on my local machine using XAMPP.
In my xampp control panel the Apache and MySQL status is shown as started, but localhost URL is not working.
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How to map a IP adress to the localhost?
I want to map the IP adress 192.168.1.222 to 127.0.0.1 so that if I use 192.168.1.222 in the web browser or ping command I get the response (and that from my 127.0.0.1).
Is this possible via routing ...
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Certain websites redirect to 127.0.0.1. How do I fix this?
Facebook and Youtube in particular.
Tried nslookup the address shows as 127.0.0.1.
Checked the HOSTS file, it's fine.
Ran Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (didn't find any problems) and SpyBot Search and ...
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How can I send emails from my app “locally”? [closed]
I have an app that sends emails and I want to test it under high volumes of traffic (not because it needs to send high volumes of emails - because I'm debugging a problem that occurs rarely and is ...
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Proxying fake domain to a localhost port
I'd like to do much the same thing described at Redirect Domain Name to Localhost for web app development purposes, but with the twist that I'd like requests to fakedomain.com:80 to be routed to ...
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Debug - How to Access virtual host from Virtual Box machine?
If I configure my virtual box with NAT I can access my localhost MAMP page with: 10.0.2.2
If I configure windows hosts file with: 10.0.2.2 mysite.dev
I could then access that same information by ...
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How to access http://localhost on the host operating system if the server is in a virtual machine?
I always used XAMPP for my LAMP environment and developed directly on Windows 7. But now I want to do all my web development on Linux so I installed Ubuntu in virtualbox and installed PHP/MySQL and ...
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Why is “It works!” showing up at my http://127.0.0.1 (localhost)?
So, I was playing around with Java sockets, servers and streams, the other day, and I decided, purely out of curiosity, expecting no good results, to open Google Chrome and navigate to 127.0.0.1, and ...
