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Why Can't My Desktop Access Apache Web Server on LAN While Laptops Can?
Thanks to Using Domain name instead of localhost in with https in xampp I am running a website on an Apache web server using XAMPP on a new laptop (Laptop 1), which is the host, running Windows 11 and ...
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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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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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How to remove a CNAME record?
I use the hostname basic.localmachine.io for local development and it points to the localhost. For some reason, basic.localmachine.io has a CNAME set in my machine to
basic.wpengine.com. I have no ...
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http://localhost:3000 works, but http://127.0.0.1:3000 doesn't
I'm building a Rails application on my local dev machine. When running my local server, I can access http://localhost:3000 without a problem. However, when I try to navigate to http://127.0.0.1:3000, ...
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localhost declaration on PC?
I was wondering , where does windows declares that localhost is - the machine itself (where is it configured?) ?
It is not in the hosts file.
I thought it is in the Registry but I couldn't find ...
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windows 8.1 hosts file # redirect this is just a bad ideas
I've been editing my host file for a while never had this kind of problem. A few days ago I'm not sure either windows or a malware override my host file
For example if I did this
127.0.0.1 yk-sms....
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Access web server on LAN using IP fail
I have a web server in my LAN with IP: 192.168.1.103, I can only access the web server from browser in this computer through http://localhost:8080, I cannot access it through 192.168.1.103:8080, nor ...
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How to configure and access both local and remote versions of same website/domain?
I am working on a client's website which is currently hosted on an external remote server. I downloaded a copy of the site to my local computer, which is running a 'LAMP stack' set up on Arch Linux, ...
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Redirect all HTTP requests to a website
How to configure windows to open the same static html page for all HTTP browser request.
For example if the user types http://www.google.com, my static Index.html will be shown.
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Terminal host changed
I opened terminal today and realized that the usual startup text:
my-macbook-pro:~ myUsername$_
has been replaced by:
mscs256-24197:~ myUsername$_
I tried googling but couldn't find anything. I'm ...
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Localhost via WAMP doesn't connect
I needed to change the default port wamp was listening to, so now I need to use another one, let's say 81. So now instead of going to http://localhost now I need to go to http://localhost:81. No ...
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If localhost is called 'localhost', why is the gateway not called 'gateway'? [closed]
If you run server services in your computer, it is very easy to configure the same computer to use it: just point the client to localhost.
Now the gateway often runs your DHCP, DNS, proxy, firewall, ...
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Firefox not taking note of /etc/hosts?
I've set foo.com to 127.0.0.1 in my /etc/hosts file in (located here on Windows: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts).
Though Chrome loads foo.com with the one hosted locally on port 80, Firefox ...
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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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