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Does anyone know exactly why the localhost entry in the hosts file has been commented out? From the comment in the file I guess they mean to use DNS for localhost resolution instead but I was just curious as to what the reasoning behind that is.

Hey there I cannot access my Link Removed, it comes up with nothing in firefox, and "404 Page Not Found" in IE. I have looked at the C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts file or whatever, it has the lines: 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost So I don't know why it doesn't show anything. Yes...

Here are the steps: * download Link Removed - Invalid URL * unzip to C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.18\ * run/powershell * typed these commands: $env:path += \";C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.18\bin\" $env:JAVA_HOME = \"C:\Java\jdk1.6.0_12\" $env:CATALINA_HOME = \"C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.18\" catalina start...

First off, I'm new on these boards, and if this is a wrong board or anything, just tell me. So anyway, I'm someone who likes to script for websites. I've set IIS website port to 22004 and it's also portforwarded. Now when I connect to Link Removed, I get my website. If I do it with my local...

Ok, I've Googled this quite a bit to no end. I purchased two Dell machines over the past year - one was a laptop, another was a new XPS desktop. Both came with Vista installed. Before, with my machines that were running XP, I was running WAMP just fine. On Vista, Apache stops working...

When I am away from home I often have no access to the Internet. But it never used to matter because my laptop was XP and I used localhost/hosts/127.0.01 and virtual hosts in Apache to work on the train whilst travelling etc with my website development stuff. Until I installed Vista Ultimate...

Windows Vista Business Edition. I've been having lots of problems with it regarding internet. I've got access to a wired and a wireless network at home. I also have a localhost server on my computer which I access through localhost (127.0.0.1). Now, sometimes I'm using the internet and it stops...