Re: help with localhost please.

[Brian J. <bjo...@je...>]

What kind of operating sytem are you using?

Look for a file called hosts

That file is the place to put name to IP number mappings including localhost

Localhost is usually set to 127.0.0.0 which is a fake IP address that justs routes 
back to your machine

There are other things that could be causing this error such as:
have you installed a web server and is it running?
have you set up your machine for TCP/IP networking?

If you are using a Linuc machine, there is all sorts of how-tos at www.linuxdoc.org



Wayne (inf...@pi...) wrote: 
>
>Hi,
>On the installation instruction for SETUP A USER I get ans error.
>When I enter the URL
>http://localhost/sql-ledger/admin.pl   I get the error
>Netscape can not find localhost. Can some kind soul
>tell me how to let Netcape know about localhost, also
>could you point me to some documentation on this?
>Thanks.
>WAyne.

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