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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How to route a single an ip to a localhost?
I have a web server on my localhost on win-7,
and I want to route my local network ip: (192.168.1.120) to the localhost,
so that if I type http://192.168.1.120/ in my browser it would directly ...
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Why does it take a long time to connect to my local site?
I have Windows 7 and a local website on Apache / PHP. I have the most recent versions installed.
I have some PCs connected into a local network by the router, which assigns local IP addresses like ...
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Tunnel from my home computer using my server
I have a local webserver in my Mac (OS X 10.7.3). I was wondering how could I build a tunnel to "publish" it temporarily on the internet. For example, my server is running on localhost:20000 and I ...
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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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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 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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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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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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OS X can't resolve localhost suddenly
Last week I fired up a website that I'm currently developing locally only to find out that it wasn't working as it was the night before, (or at all). After an inital stage of panic and 'what did I do'...
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Accessing localhost through a proxy
A quick background of my situation:
I'm a web developer that frequently uses IIS Express to debug web applications via localhost. I've recently purchased a proxy because I'm about to travel abroad and ...
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Access localhost with domain alias via VM
I have a local development environment that I have setup using MAMP on OSX, on the default Apache and MySQL ports (80 and 3306).
In the hosts file I have setup custom domains for my sites, eg.
127....
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can we have localhost alias in chrome?
In Chrome, we can save common address and set keyboard shortcut ( what this thing actually called ?) but when try to set alias of localhost
like if we type lh TAB 3000 then it open http://localhost:...
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How do I add a webpage on my browser opened from a locally saved .html file as a domain to an allow list?
I'm trying to reproduce a bug with a website and have created a locally hosted .html file with an iframe embed of some 3rd party software that we are having a problem with.
For the software iframe to ...
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I would like to connect over LAN to a webapp listening on IPv6. What are some ways to accomplish this?
I would like to host a guestbook for our home for visitors to use to post messages and photos.
In my router settings I can use a DNS to forward guestbook.example to my local IPv4 adress, 192.XXX.XXX....
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Config a CwPanel local server to read local domains
I have the following situation:
I have a local test server where I use Almalinux 8 with CWPanel.
I have several test domains configured on it:
192.168.1.50/~virtual
192.168.1.50/~cliente
192.168.1.50/~...