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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Chrome Localhost Connection Refused
This question is not a duplicate because the suggested duplicate does not solve this problem. There is no such flag on chrome://flags/.
I'm using the Google Chrome web browser and WampServer to ...
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Can't connect to socket listening on 127.0.0.1 but works for 'localhost' in Windows 10
I have a clean install of Windows 10 Pro x64 and I’m trying to run PostgreSQL server on it. It used to work perfectly on Windows 7, but Windows 10 is behaving really weird: If I configure PostgreSQL ...
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Override localhost IP Adress in Windows 8.1
I'm trying to set up Windows 8.1 virtual machine through VirtualBox for testing a server running on my Mac (running Yosemite 10.10.3). VirtualBox sets up a the IP 10.0.2.2 to point to the host machine'...
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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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How to forward localhost + a port into a Windows VM
I'm on a Mac running a Windows VM in Parallels, I'd like to - from my mac - be able to hit http://localhost:44300 and have that request served by an application running inside the VM.
I know that ...
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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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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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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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Firefox is slow to resolve localhost domains on MacOS, Chrome is not
I am developing a website on localhost with the following entry in my hosts file:
192.168.10.10 mysite.local
That IP is coming from a Vagrant provisioned VM hosted in Virtualbox.
Whenever I try ...
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Firefox redirects localhost to the current IP of the network adapter
I have a really strange problem. If I try to access an locally running web application via localhost then my Firefox redirects me to the IP of my network adapter an removes the given port. In Internet ...
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Can I still access another localhost website in my computer after sharing my localhost to another computer?
I am using xampp and I tried to share my localhost with another computer with the same network.Everything works fine they can see my phpmyadmin and the website I made. The problem is when I try to run ...
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OSX localhost mail in mail.app?
Every time I start a Terminal I see that I have unread mail. I know that I can access them via the mail command but I'm not comfortable in using that command.
Is there any way to read the local mail ...
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How to remove all autocomplete urls with a certain url in Chrome
I am converting my localhost:8888 to localhost and I want to remove all the autocomplete urls that have localhost:8888 in them. I already did this for history but how do I do this for autocomplete? I ...
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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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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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