Apache 2.x Question....A small puzzle.

So I installed Apache 2 on my XP Pro box. Running as a service on
127.0.0.1:8080. Install was no problem. But when I try to look at
the page via the browser using http://localhost, no joy...can not find
the page. When I try http://127.0.0.1 again no joy. But when I use
http://127.0.0.1:8080 Tada it works fine.

So I changed the server name from 127.0.0.1:8080 to 127.0.0.1, again I
can not access the test page. So I try servername localhost, and no
good. So I set it back to 127.0.0.1:8080, when I use that addy it
works fine...

What gives?

Thanks
M

If you want to set Apache to be set on port 80, you have to go through
all of apache and see everytime you put in 8080 and replace it with
just 80. Then you should be able to go to localhost and have it work.

If you want to set it to work on port 8080, it is working but instead
of going to localhost or 127.0.0.1 you have to go to whatever:8080
because it is not the default http port. When you go to just localhost
it takes you to localhost:80 and so it doesn't find it.

-Jeff

Bombingpixels.com and Nokrev.com

michael@adventurefreaks.org (Michael Sharp) wrote in message news:<36b6a53d.0311291346.3125ee84@posting.google. com>...
> So I installed Apache 2 on my XP Pro box. Running as a service on
> 127.0.0.1:8080. Install was no problem. But when I try to look at
> the page via the browser using http://localhost, no joy...can not find
> the page. When I try http://127.0.0.1 again no joy. But when I use
> http://127.0.0.1:8080 Tada it works fine.
>
> So I changed the server name from 127.0.0.1:8080 to 127.0.0.1, again I
> can not access the test page. So I try servername localhost, and no
> good. So I set it back to 127.0.0.1:8080, when I use that addy it
> works fine...
>
> What gives?
>
> Thanks
> M