XP SP2 firewall blocks some programs from opening sockets.. That could be
it.. Maybe your HOSTS file got fucked up? Look in
\windows\system32\drivers\etc for a file named hosts. Open it with notepad.
It should include the line "127.0.0.1 localhost"... Otherwise, add it at
the bottom..

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"George Fowler" <george@minding.org> skrev i meddelandet
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Oh, yeh ... no error messages in error.log or any other error log.
G
"George Fowler" <george@minding.org> wrote in message
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Hi,

I've downloaded and installed an Apache package (with MySQL, PHP, Perl, and
more) from SourceForge.net and for quite some time (months), it worked
without problems. A few days ago, I did something (installed Firefox?)
after which localhost was no longer available! What happened? How do I fix
it? Any ideas?

Many thanks.
George
george@minding.org