Re: help with localhost please.

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

I believe this means that your web server is not running

Port 80 is the port that your web server normally monitors

There are hundreds of ports for each IP address


Wayne (inf...@pi...) wrote: 
>
>Hi again,
>The path to my httpd is "/usr/local/Apache/bin/httpd",
>do I have to tell any module where my httpd is?
>When I enter the command, "telnet localhost 80" I get this error-
>Trying 127.0.01...
>telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: connection refuse
>When I do ping IP address 127.0.0.1 shows up.
>When I do ifconfig address 127.0.0.1 shows up.
>Can anyone give me some more suggestion on
> what I should  be looking for?
>TIA.
>Wayne
>Anders Wallenquist wrote:
>> Wayne wrote:
>>
>> >I did both ping and ifconfig and they show 127.0.0.1. I
>> >also did a chmod on all members to 777. I'm still getting
>> >the same error message. Is there somthing in Apache
>> >I have to do?
>> >Thanks for the help.
>> >Wayne
>> >
>>
>> Have you checked your apache/httpd?
>>
>> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart  # Does a restart of apache (stop and
>> then start)
>>
>> telnet localhost 80  # Gives you direct access thru http-protocol GET /
>> and so on...
>>
>> http://127.0.0.1/sql-ledger/admin.pl  # in netscape forces netscape to
>> not use /etc/hosts or dns
>>
>> /aw

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