Questions tagged [localhost]
Localhost is an address/term used for testing connection to the local host (current computer) used for some network troubleshooting
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Http 2 Protocol error connecting to localhost web sites [migrated]
When connecting to a localhost web site using Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition, I receive the error: This site can’t be reached The webpage at site.x.localhost might be temporarily down or may ...
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Management of different web domains associated to different servers running on the same machine
I have a local machine using Debian 12 in the company lab. On this local machine I have different servers running and reachable from different web addresses. Let's say the first one is reachable ...
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Email delivery failure
The response was: DNS Error: DNS type 'mx' lookup of comle.terre.defense.fr responded with code NOERROR DNS type 'aaaa' lookup of localhost. responded with code NXDOMAIN DNS type 'a' lookup of ...
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iptables adding localhost once adds the rule twice
I am trying to whitelist memcached port 11211 on ipv4 with iptables v1.8.4: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 11211 -s localhost -j ACCEPT; Whenever I run that command, then listing the rules, that ...
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Cannot access database from PHP script when called from web page
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04, nginx 1.18.0, mariadb 15.1 and PHP 8.1.2. Here the code of my database.php: <?php $SERVER_APP = "localhost"; $DATABASE_APP = "mydb"; $USERNAME_APP = &...
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Error 403 Forbidden on localhost when accessing custom directory on Debian 12
I've installed PHP, Apache2, MariaDB, and PHPMyAdmin. Accessing localhost shows the "It works!" page. localhost/phpmyadmin also shows the phpmyadmin login page. I've added the directory that ...
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Localhost routing through proxy when it should not be doing so
This is an issue a client is having. They have a proxy set up for all their web traffic but localhost (127.0.0.1) is also being incorrectly routed through the proxy. As you all know local traffic ...
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Access local server by name in file explorer
I have a server at work with shared folders for several terminal pc to access. One of the terminals suddenly stopped being able to access the shared folders. The situation is like this: The pc CAN ...
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Exclude local sub-net (local IP ranges)
In my company's VPN app we have a disable-able feature which excludes below List of non-web-site IP-address ranges from being routed into the VPN server. This allows local-net Apps to continue working ...
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mysql bind-address change from 127.0.0.1 to server's IP Address breaks websites
I'm trying to setup mysql replica. On master when I change bind-address value in my.cnf to server's IP address some of websites break as they are using 127.0.0.1 as database host value. There are few ...
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Bypass DNS rebinding for localhost
I am encountering more and more issues with an app I created that binds to 127.0.0.1 on an obscure port. I have a domain name - due to needing an SSL cert - that resolves to 127.0.0.1. I have this ...
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Mysql bind-address local subnet only
I am trying to allow users on my local subnet to log into my MySQL server. The server is running Ubuntu 23.10 and MySql version 0.0.35-0ubuntu0.213.10.1 The Clients are 2 iMacs with macos Sonoma 14.2....
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Is it possible to connect my hp laptop localhost IP to in my MacBook through localhost IP address? [closed]
I have two laptop first is HP and second is MacBook Now I want to use HP localhost IP to in my MacBook through localhost IP address Is it possible?
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Cannot connect to website through reverse proxy on local network
I'm having this strange issue. I have a local network running a server with my gitlab instance and some webpages. The configuration of my reverse proxy is following: server { server_name my.website....
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"[Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'net'" when trying to use Ansible localhost to connect to a Windows Shared Folder
I am unable to use Ansible localhost (Linux) to connect to a shared folder on a Windows Server. I am getting [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'net'. However, I have checked that my file path to ...
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Lost Local Connection to MySQL DB that resides in AWS RDS
The MySQL DB residing in AWS RDS was made to connect with resources in the same VPC. I always had to make it publicly accessible in order to connect to it through MySQL Workbench 8.0 CE in Windows 11. ...
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Windows 11, localhost / 127.0.0.1 port number changes on invocation
I'm testing a fastapi http server on Windows 11 running on 127.0.0.1:8000. In another terminal, a request is sent to the server on 127.0.0.1:8000. The result is a Bad Request and the server says it ...
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cURL error 7: Failed to connect to localhost port 443: Connection refused
OS version: Ubuntu 20.04 x86_64 Plesk version: Plesk Obsidian 18.0.47.5 Hi, I am running XenForo Forum on my Plesk which running behind Cloudflare. I get following erro log, which is showing me that ...
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How to access pods from local terminal?
I have a Kind cluster installed on my Ubuntu machine. I have deployed few pods on the cluster and can see they're running using kubectl get pods command. As my pods are some NodeJS services and a ...
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Can I tunnel all ports from remote server to 127.0.0.2 (for example), so work with it like with localhost
I have a remote server. I started on remote server app that listen localhost only. I want to tunnel this server to local ip like 127.0.0.2 and access this app through like I on remote server. I need ...
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NGINX: localhost redirecting to _
nginx version/1.18.0 (Ubuntu) — Ubuntu 22.04.01 LTS x86_64 kernel 6.0.8 I've got a server (install specs above) that has multiple host names, is running nginx, and everything is working (including ...
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macOS: How do I expose a localhost port to the LAN IP on the same computer?
On a Raspberry PI I have, whatever I run on, say, http://localhost:8080, is automatically visible to other computers on my local network at http://192.168.0.xxx:8080 or http://pi.local:8080. This ...
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how to set up nginx aliases on a localhost development server?
Struggling to adapt nginx to my framework and get the equivalent of, in apache config : Alias /site1 "/home/framework/public_HTML" (and then localhost/site1 displays site1 with local/dev ...
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Can't make v2ray to send DNS queries to its localhost
There are two v2ray servers A and B with similar configurations but A works as an intermediary (vmess+websocket on both inbound and outboud) to reach B. I want to make A to send incoming DNS queries ...
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unable to load files in /var/www on localhost
I don't know why, but until recently, I could load files located in /var/www/ by typing the folder name in my browser, and I could load files located in /var/www/html by using localhost/<> Now, ...
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My GCP compute instance isn't receiving any port traffic
const express = require('express') const app = express() const port = 9093 app.get('/', (req, res) => { res.send('Hello World!') }) app.listen(port, () => { console.log(Example app listening ...
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Apache 2.4 can connect localhost but not IP
Im using Laragon to connect everything together: httpd.conf #Listen 12.34.56.78:80 # Listen 80 # Listen 80 # Listen 0.0.0.0:80 Listen 80 # #ServerName www.example.com:80 ServerName :80 # # Deny ...
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How to create a local host that can be accessed through everyone on the same internet?
I've had an Apache Virtual Host working for a couple of month where workers on the office wifi could type in something like www.XYZ123.com and was able to access the website through their browser. Now,...
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How can I create a self-signed certificate that works with the browser?
I have been trying to create a self-signed certificate. The Firefox browser says the certificate is "not secure." I created the certificate following this SO explaination: Is it possible to ...
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Why is *.localhost resolved automatically on Ubuntu but not on MacOS?
I have the same hosts file on both Ubuntu and MacOS. 127.0.0.1 localhost On Ubuntu: my-ubuntu$ ping foo.localhost PING foo.localhost(ip6-localhost (::1)) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from ip6-localhost (:...
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How can i host a local website to domain using nginx?
I have a server that is running at 127.0.0.1:8323 This port is not reachable from outside. I want to provide this ip address as https://example.com/website/index.php over the port 80 How can i do this ...
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Open up localhost port to outside world
I have a http service running on localhost port 8080 on a centos 7 machine. Is there any way I can route / port forward incoming and outgoing traffic through my external interface. So, mapping 127.0.0....
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Perforce client AND server no longer connecting, 127.0.0.1:1666 refusing all connections on server, even local connections
I have a server running Ubuntu server 18.04, and it's the catch-all local server - hosts a samba share, media server, and a Perforce server. I connect to that depot via a local network IP (ssl:192.x....
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Apache Proxypass redirects "localhost:port" as url string instead of local service of the port
Environment Server version: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) I have two servers which are almost duplicates. aaa.com. and bbb.com. They have almost same Apache rulesets. aaa.com. config <Location "/...
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How do I create a Virtual Name Host on Apache2 for a service running on localhost:8080 [duplicate]
i have a server with apache that runs a mailing service, a wordpress multisite I have followed guides online to make the above work now I have a service from Vaadin (java stuff) running on localhost:...
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mariaDB 10.5.12 access denied for [email protected]
fresh installation of mariaDB 10.5.12 on debian 11 was hardened with 'mysql_secure_installation' script, question "Switch to unix_socket authentication [Y/n]" was answered with 'yes'. Now ...
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(Theoretical view) In a DDoS attack via docker, no correlation found between the amount of sent packets and the number of virtualized containers
I have been testing a DDoS attack in my local network via docker. Each image has loaded with an "evil" DDoS file. I tested simultaneously several containers attacking at the same time. On ...
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How to use smart websocket client from Windows to connect to a running websocket server on virtualbox?
Here is my setup: Windows 8.1 with Ubuntu 18.04 within VirtuablBox 6.0 Run a websocket server at 127.0.0.1:8083 within VirtuablBox Within the VirtuablBox, I can connect to the websocket server with ...
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Docker service unreachable on host-IP, but works on localhost
I have a similar problem to this post here, though I don't think my IP ranges collide: https://forums.docker.com/t/service-is-unreachable-on-host-ip-localhost-works/78515 I'm exposing a webserver via ...
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How to make localnetpriority / netmask ordering work on Windows DNS server when it queries itself?
We are utilizing Windows 2016+ DNS servers. We rely on LocalNetPriority on our DNS servers. We have several Active Directory DNS servers across multiple sites. The expected behavior is that when a ...
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how to connect to one of multiple virtual sites (apache 2.4)
If I create one site, I can access it with http://localhost ... But if I create multiple virtual sites, with apache, on the same computer, http://localhost won't work. How can I access it? (on the ...
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Connecting to lcoalhost from VM
I am using windows 10 on my local computer, and I'm building an app that requires using Linux OS, therefore I'm using an Ubuntu Virtual Box. I installed Vagrant, and set SSH connection from my windows ...
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mysql user@% can access from localhost
I was always told that "%" means every host except localhost. However I have created a user4@"%" and I can connect to from localhost. screenshot So now I am a bit confused ...
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Apache WampServer - Getting "It works!" only with https [duplicate]
I am using WampServer 3.2.3 (Apache 2.4.46) and I added an SSL certificate on a virtual host, but when I go to this virtual host's whebsite with http, it displays the configured page. The problem is ...
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Rewrite to https://localhost:8000 rather than https://localhost
I use nginx in my MacOS to test third-party authentications such as Google and Twitter in localhost. As a result, on my local website https://localhost:8000/..., I could engage with www.funfun.io for ...
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More explicit Nginx logs
I use nginx in my MacOS to test third-party authentications such as Google and Twitter in localhost. As a result, on my local website https://localhost:8000/..., I could engage with www.funfun.io for ...
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Debug third-party authentications in localhost with docker and nginx
We have a website where we just added third-party authentications such as Google, Twitter. I'm trying to test these authentications in localhost (MacOS). I'm running a docker to run nginx, here is ...
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nginx reverse proxy not serving local domain correctly
I want to resolve a few domain names locally in my computer. To do this I added in /etc/hosts the following line: 127.0.0.1 example.com Then I configured nginx with the following config file example....
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Proxy a website from Docker through Nginx without acting as localhost
How can I proxy a website from Docker through Nginx without it acting as localhost? My current setup consists of an Ubuntu host with a couple of Docker containers with exposed ports. The Docker ...
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Setting Apache on BigSur (returns ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED)
Firstly I've read many tutorials, I'm trying for many hours during last days (because I know there were billion similar questions and tutorials for the same thing before) but I'm in the ends... :-( ...
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