Questions tagged [localhost]
`localhost` usually refers to the special addresses `127.0.0.1` and `::1` that map to a loopback device, which allows a computer to connect to itself.
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Localhost issue: .NET API endpoints giving 403 error but a doc page from the same project loads. Both are under localhost
I am not sure if this is the right place to post this, but doing so with this hope that it might relate to some kind of IIS settings!
I have .NET website setup with SQL Server database. This is ...
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Can't connect to MySQL from PHP script running on the PHP builtin server (localhost)
I am trying to connect to the MySQL service provided by XAMPP (screenshot) through a PHP script that runs on the builtin PHP server (I started the server through php -S localhost:4242 in the folder ...
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Can't access Windows Laptop localhost on Android Phone in same local net
Disclaimer: I know there are a few variants of this problem on this site but none of them helped me solved my problem -- Believe me I'd be more than happy if I didn't have to post another one.
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How to allow access to WAMP Virtual Host from over the internet?
I try to write everything with the settings with all.
I have a localhost with wamp and windows 10, that I'm trying to access from other computers outside the network.
Because i have some problems ...
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Using SSH Tunneling to play Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (SMAC) Multiplayer Online
Summary / Background
I am trying to set up online multiplayer for an old TBS from 1999. The multiplayer works with no changes if the host and other pc are on the same LAN, but I am trying to set up ...
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ssh: connect to host example port 22: Connection refused
I have given the following command in the terminal:
ssh -L 8080:localhost:8888 bb@example
However, the following error appears:
ssh: connect to host example port 22: Connection refused
I have also ...
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warning: no inet socket available: No such file or directory
so there i am using chroot to chrooting into debian bootstrap everything worked just right on root account until i added a new user to figure out that i cannot do update or access xdisplay or ...
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Log into local SSH shell over guacamole
So I want to use guacamole to access the 127.0.0.1 ssh shell.
I have disabled plain text password auth and root login. Using a private for my normal ssh sessions.
Is there a way to allow localhost ...
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Does firefox make requests to the history urls on its own?
Strange thing happened: my localhost webserver showed that a browser I was using called some endpoint on it. I'm not sure if it was malware or some strange Firefox behaviour. The endpoint I'm talking ...
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How to get the flatpak versioni of Firefox to treat localhost as an address without a protocol prefix?
When I enter localhost:8888 in the address bar, the flatpak version of Firefox opens a dialog to choose an application to open the link. If I use http://localhost:8888 the page opens normally. I don't ...
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Would a service bound to 127.0.0.1 respond to packets with destination 127.0.0.1?
Suppose I have a server running on my computer listening at 127.0.0.1
If an attacker were to:
Reconfigure my computer so that it does not consider loopback addresses as martian (Sending packets meant ...
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Wanting to migrate a wordpress project from localhost to a local domain name server/virtual host
I have a WordPress project that currently resides in WAMP on the standard localhost server. I also have node.js installed to automate my workflow.
I would like to create a local domain server/virtual ...
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Can't access localhost via IPv4 - but IPv6 works
I can't access 127.0.0.1 or my own IPv4 address (192.168.178.xx) in any browser, while the IPv6 address [::1] works.
More information:
My OS is Windows 10 Pro 20H2 19042.985.
Pinging 127.0.0.1 and my ...
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How does linux resolve wildcard locahost subdomains (e.g. : `ping test.localhost`) when `test.localhost` does not exist in /etc/hosts or dns server?
For example in ubuntu 20.04 LTS where the /etc/hosts file is empty:
>>> cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
ping still works for any subdomain of localhost:
>>> ping test....
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Why is port not open? ufw disabled, service running
I have a mysql service running on ubuntu server on port 33070.
I can connect to it locally, but not from outside(another machine).
Here is what I've tried.
ufw is off
root@localhost:/# ufw status
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How Do I Redirect HTTP(S) Requests From a Specific Domain to a Localhost Server?
I currently have a program that requests data from a server (let's say google.com), and gets replies from that same server. This application works on many devices like Android, iOS and Windows. ...
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Why does the hosts file in Windows 10 not block websites while using a free vpn?
I have already read this thread I couldnt comment there to ask for the expired links, and almost all steps in the solution here. The host file works fine without a VPN, but unfortunately am not able ...
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WSL on Windows 10 - localhost works, 127.0.0.1 doesn't (and is not my local IP)
I'm in the middle of setting up WSL on Windows to work on PHP stuff with my PHPStorm. Started the config, and installed Apache and PHP. To check, I'm opening my browser on localhost, it works, but on ...
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Firefox disable extension on local files
Is it possible to disable selected firefox extensions from acting upon local files starting with file:// as this might be security issue?
Any suggestions?
Google Chrome has this feature, unfortunately ...
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What is causing my home LAMP server to wait about 57 seconds before serving up a web page?
I should preface this all by saying that I'm certainly not a sysadmin, or even a web designer. I've searched for an answer but most answers I've seen have to do with WAMP and DNS. Not my particular ...
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Redirecting a public subdomain to a local ip
So I've been working on a little project at home with a Raspberry Pi. I wanted to set up some kind of intranet for my household to use, and everything's been working fine, but I found that using an ip ...
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2 Raspberry PI connecting to same MYSQL database on the same network
I am working on a project which requires 2 Raspberry Pis to share some data.
I have figured that it would be most convenient for me to use MySQL database since I had a bit of experience on that. I ...
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localhost and 127.0.0.1 working but not ip address in wsl windows 10
I recently switched from Linux to WSL2 (Ubuntu 20.04) on Windows 10. When I run any NodeJs application or a server like Apache or Nginx everything works fine on localhost or 127.0.0.1 but doesn't work ...
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How to start local AEM 6.5 instance on port 4502 using Docker
I'm using the latest Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) image in Docker (https://hub.docker.com/r/aemdesign/aem) on my Windows 10 machine and everything was working fine, but suddenly AEM no longer loads (...
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How can I solve this error on my Pentaho BI Server: “pentaho PentahoSystem.ERROR_0014”
I get this error when I set MySQL as repository:
PentahoSystem.ERROR_0014: Error while trying to execute startup sequence for org.pentaho.platform.engine.services.connection.datasource.dbcp....
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Not working Windows hosts file (for "localhost" name) in Parallels Desktop 16
I am using Parallels Desktop 16 on my Macbook Pro 15 (MacOs 10.15.7)
I am installing the free "Legacy version of Microsoft Edge on Windows 10" in Parallels Desktop 16. But I cannot redirect &...
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Why is there another DNS server involved when resolving localhost?
I've already fought many battles with WSL 2 and made progress here and there. My newest problem is this:
❯ nslookup localhost
Server: 10.10.30.132
Address: 10.10.30.132#53
Name: ...
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Register custom domain locally without using host file
I have installed Topaz SignWeb which installs an agent to capture the signature. I am trying to understand where the internal server in my machine. I found the below in Chrome DevTool,
So the domain ...
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why does ssh to localhost as another user on windows 10 still asks for password even after key-pair is set up?
I am using Windows 10 as Username: poh
I want to ssh into localhost as another User: ml
I have done the following steps in Powershell:
ssh-keygen -t rsa
ssh ml@localhost mkdir -p .ssh
cat .ssh/...
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How can I get ChromeOS/Linux to play nicely with localhost, VirtualHosts and local storage?
I'm pretty new to Linux and using localhost having really only developed using a self hosted, browser based IDE on a live site up until now. Using a Chromebook(v84, regular channel, Debian 10 Buster), ...
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Plex server is intercepting localhost (calls from JDownloader)
I've been using Plex Server for some times without issues on Linux Mint Cinnamon.
I've just installed JDownlader2, which works fine, except for the captcha parts that try to open the browser and I end ...
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Why aren't my self-signed certificates working for HTTPS on localhost
I have this in Node.js:
const http2 = require('http2')
const fs = require('fs')
let server
start({
port: process.env.PORT || 3000,
private: fs.readFileSync('/Users/me/certs/localhost.key')....
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Can I use the same port on 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.x.x
I don't quite understand how localhost relates to the private IP assigned to each machine.
If I run a server on localhost:8080, can I run something else on 192.168.x.x:8080?
More specifically if I run ...
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VMware can't connect to Xampp localhost
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I'm running Windows 10 on my physical computer. Xampp is running in it. The configurations are default 127.0.0.1 80, 443.
I'm running Kali Linux on VMware Workstation(Latest) but noncommercial....
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Win10: Cannot ping localhost / Windows Smart Screen does not work
I have an odd problem - I am unable to ping localhost. It just hangs until eventually dies with an error, or returns results. It seems that there is a huge delay in DNS lookup:
In addition to that ...
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localhost not loading correctly
PhpMyAdmin is not loading correctly after XAMPP starts. I am using the default settings Apache running on ports 80 and 443 and MySQL port 3306. When launch it from XAMPP the page can't be loaded "...
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Why am I getting seemingly duplicate “arp-scan DUP(:x)” results when running “arp-scan”
I have searched for the information but could not find an answer to my question.
So I ran this command on my laptop:
sudo arp-scan --interface=eth0 --localnet
And got some weird results:
ip ...
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remove local hosts from terminal on mac
I'm trying to instal adobe cloud, but it doesn't work because I believe some of it's servers are blocked in my terminal.
How do I remove them? I know how to open terminal, but that's it. I'm not the ...
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TCP RST when connecting via telnet to the application - Windows
I have an application running on Windows.
The application listens on port 54000.
I can connect to the application from the local machine and it works fine:
telnet 127.0.0.1 54000
Now, I am trying to ...
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Accessing \\localhost in windows 7
Problem is:
I cannot access \localhost from my system explorer(C:\Windows\explorer.exe);
I cannot access any other web resource in file explorer,
error is always the same generic "0x80004005";
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Cannot access WAMP over internet
I have installed WAMP 3.2 on Windows Server.
I need to access the phpmyadmin running on localhost of wamp over the internet from anywhere.
After googling things, i found the modifications in httpd-...
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How to forward my service from localhost to the internet?
I have made my personal tcp service that works on port 44444 through telnet as a communication protocol. The service itself is just a simple guess game written in C. I am working on Fedora Linux and ...
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Chrome os, Chromebook, bash responds to every command in terminal with "permission denied" etc
This is the 6th time I've written and attempted to post my problem and am about to go off my rocker,
I'm new to all this and an trying to install a Linux distro on my Chromebook but can't get started ...
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Windows 10 hostfile url to IP address of machine
Is it possible to use a fixed url to redirect to the IP of my own PC? I use DHCP and I have no problem with it but would like to use an url i.e. "server.local" to reach a web server deployed on the PC ...
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How to connect wsl to a windows localhost?
I'm trying to let WSL use a localhost proxy(actually its Fiddler) on my windows, but I can't see any connection like that, and downloads usually fail, how do I fix that?
I know that I can connect to ...
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Trying to run a local server with port forwarding behind a carrier grade network from ISP, but getting no connection with localhost
i'm trying to make a half life server by portforwarding trought my router. It didn't work, i checked it out, and my public IP and my WAN IP were different, then i realised that i was in a carrier ...
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Solr that runs on a docker container takes localhost but not the container IP
I have used official CentOS 7 image from Docker Hub and created a container that runs Solr 8.4.1 version. I was able to start and run the Solr without any issue. My concern is, Solr admin UI loads ...
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How to block a port on localhost?
Here's my scenario: I have an Apache load balancer in front of two Tomcats (this is on Windows). Periodically I'd like to ensure that traffic gets routed to a specific Tomcat. Stopping one Tomcat is ...
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Windows 10 WSL cURL can't access localhost with error (Failed to connect to localhost port 80: Connection refused)
The issue with my WSL is the following my WSL can't make a cURL request anywhere under localhost. For this example, I have created a page that returns hello world.
My cURL looks like this (note that ...
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Locating the directory of localhost
An useful editor (Lugaru's Epsilon Programmer's Editor), is running on my localhost at port 8888 (i.e., localhost:8888), when I open the offline help through the application.
Below is a screenshot:
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