localhost not working

[danielhozac]

i'm just trying my website on my computer, and i want to use localhost. that way i can keep it offline, i thought. but when i type in my ip in the address bar, i still get to my site, and it is accessable to others too. can i prevent that from happening?

//Daniel

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

To restrict Apache to listening only on the loopback interface, you would just change your Listen directive in httpd.conf to :

Listen 127.0.0.1:80

(instead of 'Listen 80' )

Regards

 

[danielhozac]

currently i am using ServerName localhost and ServerPort 80, i thought the listen was only for use when i wanted to use several ip's/domains. so i should use listen instead?

//Daniel

 

[ifincham]

Hi,



Listem can indeed also be used to allow multiple addresses / ports . The alternative is 'BindAddress 127.0.0.1:80' but it should be indentical if you don't have multiple Listens -->

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/bind.html

.


See also,

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#listen

and

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#bindaddress

.


Regards

 

[danielhozac]

ok, thanks a lot!

//Daniel