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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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How to connect to localhost port from android?
I have one problem. I have EasyPHP server on my local computer. I am making program that is connecting to PHP scripts and returns me result to my local PC. Everything works nice I am using ...
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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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Apache/Lion not serving up site in local testing environment
Moved to serverfault: http://serverfault.com/questions/344271/apache-lion-not-serving-up-site-in-local-testing-environment
Ive configured Apache for Name-based Virtual Hosting but I can't seem to get ...
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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 ...
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NFS fails to mount local directory when network is down
I'm trying to mount a local directory with NFS (see why). My /etc/exports contain this line:
/var/www/mysite localhost(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,all_squash,anonuid=33,anongid=33)
and this in ...
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Making home based web server
I am new in making web servers. I installed Apache web server in my computer and I forwarded a port 80 on my Router. When I type http://localhost, 127.0.0.1 or my local IP ie 192.168.1.2 in my web ...
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How to SSH to localhost without password?
EDIT: Putting exactly what was done.
I need to SSH to localhost without a password, the usual way of doing it (with public keys) do not work.
user@PC:~$ rm -rf .ssh/*
user@PC:~$ ssh-keygen -t rsa ...
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Connect to VM localhost virtual directory
I have an Ubuntu guest VM operating inside Windows 7 host (VirtualBox with Bridged Networking enabled). In my VM, instead of browsing to http://localhost/somesite I set up virtual directories in ...
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How to view Mamp Pro on a Mac OS X 10.6 from a PC over a LAN
I've been trying to test my sites on IE on my PC sitting next to my Mac over the LAN.
I have Mamp Pro set up with port: 80 Mysql: 3306 with a virtual file with: 127.0.0.1 mysite.dev
On my Windows ...
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http://localhost:8080/ points to firefox installation directory C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
When I type http://localhost:8080/ in any of my windows browser , I see all the files listed in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox which is my Firefox installation directory. I am not sure which http ...
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How does localhost 127.0.0.1 work?
I found some articles related to this, but they were not sufficient for me. I want to know how the localhost works and why is it the same on many different machines?
How does the localhost block the ...
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I just installed Apache, MySQL and PHP stack on my Mac but now everytime I alter a file the OS asks me for my system password? How can I stop this?
I just installed Lion on my machine and I'm starting fresh. I thought I'd manually install an AMP stack on my machine. Also, I'm using my ~/Sites folder as my web root. However, now that everytime I ...
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Chrome slow on request against 127.0.0.1 via “fake” domain (domain.local)
I'm having troubles on my local dev environment with Chrome since an unknown moment in the past, some request (I would say about 90% of them) are really slow, it takes about 10 secs to start ...
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Changing ability to access via “localhost”
I've successfully used PHP/Apache/mySQL on my iMac several times in the past few months/years. However, I started using a new PHP book and moved things around a bit (obviously without knowing what I ...
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localhost:55555 only works with Opera [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
WebMatrix/IIS Express only works with Opera!
Older question... Which is dead...
Basically, only Opera works opening localhost (IIS Express/WebMatrix).
For details on ...
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Connect to localhost from another computer
I'm trying to access a database that is hosted in a Mac localhost from my Android device which are both connected to the same network.
The localhost project is running at www.localhost:8000/
I've ...
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How can I connect to localhost from another computer? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Connect to localhost from another computer
Hi all I'm trying to access a database that is hosted in a laptop localhost from my android device which is both connected to ...
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Local virtualhost takes too long to load on MAMP
I have a virtualhost "myhost.local" configured in MAMP
My hosts file:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 myhost.local
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
#::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 ...
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Joomla cannot connect to MySQL using localhost
I have a fresh Joomla installation in a Mac OS X and I have configured a database to connect the application to. By default, Joomla uses localhost to connect (variable $host), but it does not work.
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Accessing localhost from other computers leads to URL redirect
I'm using WampServer and I'm trying to access localhost (the WampServer homepage is stored on my computer) but can't if accessing from outside.
Using my external IP address this method works when I'm ...
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Running PHP files locally on Opera gives 404 error
I have been developing websites for quite some time now and recently web applications. I am trying to achieve strong cross-browser coherence with a new site that I am designing so I downloaded the ...
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Firefox on Ubuntu can't connect to local virtualhost when network is unplugged
I'm using Firefox (3.6.17) on my Ubuntu Lucid (rel. 10.04) and noticed that if the network cable is plugged everything is fine and I'm able to browse my local virtualhost configured in Apache2.
But ...
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How to make no one able to connect to my localserver except me?
I've installed a LAMP server locally and I want it to only be accessible from my own computer (not even my local network), only through loopback. Is this possible to do securely? If so, how?
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Share MAMP in virtual pc as well
I have a MAMP installation on my mac, and I use vmware fusion to run a virtual windows installation. I was wondering if there's a way to share the localhost i have in mac with the vmware windows ...
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telnet localhost fails
I am not able to telnet in to localhost .
[root@localhost ~]# telnet localhost
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...
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Parallels Network Setup — Localhost goes to host computer
I've got a local webapp that runs via Tomcast and Eclipse. Big chunks of it don't function well or properly when not accessing them from the localhost domain (for security reasons I am assuming, not ...
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard 403 Forbidden
After an update to my computer my server on Snow Leopard has become unstable. I continually get Forbidden 403 issues on every page that I try to access. I can upload my apache log files...just not ...
