can't find localhost...

[Pumlilaman]

hi anybody out there...
i have problems with a developed site... that has been working fine up to a
couple of days ago... all of a sudden when previewing the index.php in
safari... i get the message that the server localhost cannot be found...
no new programs have been installed... nor have any settings been changed...
has anybody got an idea as to what might have happened... or has come across
this problem before...
any help is greatly appreciated...
thx...

[budeborton]

It is can't find 'localhost' are you sure the webserver is running properly?

Is this Windows or Linux?
What server is running - IIS, Apache, etc...?

Have you tried a reboot?

[Pumlilaman]

sorry... it is a g5 mac... webserver is apache... reboot more than one time... :-)
webserver should be running properly... however if you got any idea... let me know...
kind regards...
j?rgen

[Pumlilaman]

Safari can?t open the page ?[url]http://localhost/?[/url] because it could not connect to the server ?localhost?.
is the message...

[David Powers]

Pumlilaman wrote:

> Safari can?t open the page ?[url]http://localhost/?[/url] because it could not connect to the server ?localhost?.
> is the message...

It shouldn't be necessary, but sometimes Mac OS X gets fussy, and
prefers 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost. Worth trying anyway.

--
David Powers
Author, "Foundation PHP 5 for Flash" (friends of ED)
Co-author "PHP Web Development with DW MX 2004" (Apress)
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[Calvin Willman]

Check the personal web sharing checkbox (if you haven't already) is ticked
on you sharing tab of system preferences. Same happened to me a while ago,
it just seemed to switch itself off, couldn't think of any reason why, but
it solved the problem.

On 19/4/05 11:56 pm, in article d442bm$h6a$1@forums.macromedia.com, "David
Powers" <dp@example.com> wrote:

> Pumlilaman wrote:

>> Safari can?t open the page ?[url]http://localhost/?[/url] because it could not connect
>> to the server ?localhost?.
>> is the message...

>
> It shouldn't be necessary, but sometimes Mac OS X gets fussy, and
> prefers 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost. Worth trying anyway.

[Pumlilaman]

thank you... it did the trick...
for some reason... it was not activated even though it was all that time... never thought of checking that...
so thank you...

j

[Unregistered]

if http://localhost works in a browser then your local server it's OK so:
do this
go to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
open hosts with text editor and write:
127.0.0.1 localhost
this is all you need to make dreamweaver will work very well :)