[thelist] Apache next error

[Gary Bland]

Jackson Yee wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Bland" <Gary at star-chaser.com>
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 07:24
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Apache next error
>
>
>
>>There is no such thing as http://localhost for Apache. it is
>>http://127.0.0.1
>
>
> Are you sure about that, Gary?  DNS resolution has nothing to do with Apache.
> localhost has been an established domain name resolving to 127.0.0.1, the
> loopback IP address, since the early days of the web:
>
> http://www.landfield.com/rfcs/rfc2606.html
>
> There is no reason why replacing a domain name with its corresponding IP
> address would make a difference within Apache's configuration.
>

Jackson, I don't know about current versions of 1.3. I know back when I
used windows 98 I could never get it to work in the early versions of
Apache for windows. Maybe they have improved Apache since then. I now
only use windows for email and testing.

Gary


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