localhost problem

WHen I goto http://localhost/ nothing displays.. I get an "Unable to
display page error" But if I go to 192.168.0.100:8080 I see the index
file. Why won't localhost work?

On 16 Jul 2003 15:10:42 -0700, The Other Guy responded to a post from
skadoesntsuk@somethingorother.com (Woody) who wrote in
comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows:

>WHen I goto http://localhost/ nothing displays.. I get an "Unable to
>display page error" But if I go to 192.168.0.100:8080 I see the index
>file. Why won't localhost work?

Well, you would have to put in http://localhost:8080 (which is really
just like http://127.0.0.1:8080).

Check for the Listen directive in the httpd.conf file. If you want to
change your setup to run on just http://localhost you have to modify
the Listen directive to read:
Listen 80
This is the default port for Apache, so you don't need it when putting
in the URL (in other words, http://localhost:80 works but the port #
-- 80 -- is redundant in this case).

You can mix and match IP addresses and different port numbers -- see
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod...on.html#listen.

Then just change the configuration of your router to forward requests
to that IP machine to port 80 for web services (as well as any
firewalls configured to filter traffic).

HTH
TOG

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