Reaching localhost through browser

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Is it possible to connect with localhost 127.0.0.1 with a browser on Windows 10? My searches on this site and with Google have only uncovered problems with no solutions. I can ping localhost or 127.0.0.1 successfully but any attempt to address

http://localhost

or

http://127.0.0.1

(any way I type it) fails in Chrome and Internet Explorer ("Refused to connect" and "This page can't be displayed"). Has something changed with this version of Windows or do I have another problem? (Windows 10 Home, Chrome v57.0.2987.133, Internet Explorer v11.953.14393.0)


Add water (makes its own sauce).

 

[gbaughma]

Is IIS or some other web server software running on the localhost?



Just my $.02

"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."

--Greg

 

[strongm]

Which web server are you running on Windows 10 Home?

 

[vacunita]

Unless there is something to answer the browser's request for

http://localhost

running on the machine such as a web server, the error you get is all you will get.

You would need to be running something like IIS or Apache for Windows for there to be something at

http://localhost

What exactly are you attempting to do by accessing localhost?



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Phil AKA Vacunita
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