"localhost" displays differently than my ip adress!

[taifunbrowser]

Well, it does! Typing "localhost" into my browser displays my apache index.php, with a "hello world", but typing in my ip adress (which I am sure is correct) does not!

in fact, it returns nothing!

I have a dyndns account under "taifunbrowser.mine.nu" and like my ip, it displays nothing.

This frustrates me to no end. I reuninstalled and reinstalled xampp and still not working! Please, any advice that could perhaps cause this?

 

[monsterjta]

Hm...good question. Is you site bound to the IP address? I don't know much about Apache, however...

Hope This Helps,

Good Luck!

 

[taifunbrowser]

well, before, simply typing in my ip adress into the browser was enough to see my site <_<

but now, because that doesnt work, and dyndns just links to my ip adress, they both return the "same kind of nothing..." if that makes sense?

localhost:80 works, changed it to listen to 4000, andt hen localhost:4000 was needed, but still no "my url":4000...

so its back to 80 now

 

[itsp1965]

when you enter localhost, I am assuming that Apache is "listening" on IP address 127.0.0.1 (which is localhost), and not your IP address. You may want to re-check your configuration settings. Hope this helps

 

[karinne]

Sorry for bringing back old threads but, I googled and got this post.

We're having the same problem here but ... could someone elaborate on itsp1965's post?

BTW ... this is with Win2000 and IIS (not apache). When we create the "web site" in IIS we specified the IP address (the machine's IP) but still only localhost:81 work and not IP:81.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[itsp1965]

Karinne, as it pertains to localhost. Localhost refers to the something called the loopback address of your machine. This is used to test to ensure that the TCP/IP protocol is working on your machine. Localhost's IP address is 127.0.0.1 so saying

http://localhost

is the same as saying

http://127.0.0.1

If you are having a problem by typing

http://servername

(when

http://ipaddress

works), you will need to take a look at the DNS setting for servername to ensure that it is able to resolve using that address. Hope this helps.

Regards

 

[markdmac]

You also can look at the settings you have in IIS to see what IP address you have bound to the web site.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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