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Installed Ubuntu Updates - Cannot access localhost
I have sites on a localhost in Ubuntu. After doing updates today, localhost now says: Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to 10.21.533.203
Help! Can I undo updates? Or is there a file to reconnect ...
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Chrome Ubuntu loading apache2's localhost instead of remote website
I'm a web developer and do local development through apache2 on localhost. However, sometimes when going to remote websites, well known websites like sky.com or bbc.com instead of loading that ...
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How to access localhost:8080 running on ubuntu from windows running into virtual box?
I have the ip address for ubuntu machine, and I want to access the application running on localhost in ubuntu from my virtual windows box. Is there a way to do it? Typing the [inet address]:8080 ...
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How to inspect localhost from my smartphone?
Ideally I'd like to expose a port, like 8080 or something, to the web, so that I can run a website on my desktop and inspect it on my smart phone or show it to a client and so on. How do I expose one ...
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I cannot get the localhost webserver on firefox to display jpg or jpeg files
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Firefox. I cannot display jpg files when browser starts up. But if I click on ICON there is no problem. I am attaching a few screen shots. Am adding display from ...
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Is there a way I can transfer all my web sites on localhost to a new computer?
I have a whole set of web sites on my Ubuntu computer that I use for testing and development. I don't host them on the internet, I just access them locally for design and debugging.
Each one is built ...
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folder on /var/www is forbidden,why? (browser is showing forbidden message) [duplicate]
I installed LAMP, and created a file named index.html. This file is accessible via browser (localhost/index.html).
But when I moved my project folder to /var/www/ , I can't browse any file via ...
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trouble accessing www folders - permission or ownership?
Trying to access a folder inside /var/www with:
cd layout
I get the following response:
bash: cd: layout: Permission denied
When I list the details, I get:
drwxrw---- 7 www-data www-data 4096 ...
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Looking wepage trought localhost
I want to look my webpage saved on my computer but some js and ajax stuf doen't work, because it's not on server or something. I understand, that you are suposed to use localhost somehow. How can I ...
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.profile file not getting updated in Ubuntu 12.04, trouble installing mysql
I'm trying to install mysql in ubuntu to run ruby on rails. I was going through the tutorial at Lynda. I have successfully installed ruby, gem & rails.
ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel ...
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Cannot access directory in /var/www/: Permission Denied
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /celsium/index.php on this server.
The above text is shown when i try to access the directory made in /var/www.
the directory is ...
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How do i completely remove otrs and fix my previous localhost
I followed a guide on how to install and configure otrs, it didn't work. Now When I tip in Firefox localhost it cannot connect to it.
I tried to remove everything, but still no luck.
I removed ...
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Why is this single-word address being resolved? [closed]
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04. On my work network, there's a single-word address (let's call it foobar) that is responding to pings and HTTP requests, only from my machine. The address is not a TLD, just a ...
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Video runs locally but not on apache 2 server
I have a simple html page in which i am running video using html5 tags, when i run that page using firefox it runs the page and video properly. But when i run this page by setting the apache server ...
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How can I open my Meteor app's port to the local network
I'm running a MeteorJS app on localhost:3000. I'd like to allow other computers connected to my network access to view the app by visiting my IP address. Any ideas on how I can do this?
EDIT: I'm ...
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What is the loopback device and how do I use it?
What are loopback and localhost?
Why do they exist, what are they used for, and how would I use them?
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How to get telnet to localhost working?
I'm working on a local dev setup that requires the use of telnet (playing with setting up a MUD server) so please no feedback suggesting I use SSH as a more secure alternative.
However, though I've ...
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How to install Joomla in Ubuntu as localhost? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I set up local Joomla sites for web developing?
I have installed the lamp-server but i stuck in one certain step..
For those who are not familiar with Joomla ...
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How to see the localhost traffic details?
I have hosted my website over the local network in ubuntu maverick. I want to see all the requests coming in to my website through terminal and then log it into a file. What should i use? and is it ...
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Why does penguin.local point to an odd IP, when it is meant to be local?
So I was doing some configuration for ssh. When I later then did this command:
lsof -i tcp|grep ^ssh
I got a list of what I was expecting to happen. However, something I never noticed before was ...
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access localhost from other PC
I'm fresher for ubuntu 12.04..,
I just created a simple program called login.php
and i would like to run this prog from anther PC that not in my LAN.
I had localhost in my system., I'm using apache2.0 ...
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How to define specific urls like 'localhost'?
The same way 'localhost' in the url points to /var/www/
I would like to put http://courses/somehting/somthing/moresomthings/....
and it would always point to /var/www/courses.php
This is to work on ...
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500 Error on index.php file
I have found a question very similar to this, which I thought would solve my problem.
However, after changing my .htaccess file, with index.php on the end of the list, and then index.php as the only ...
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Can't ssh with IP alias
This is may sound like a weird prob. I am able to seamlessly ssh to remote hosts and also to "localhost".
As part of requirement, I have modified the /etc/hosts file with below entries:
127.0.0.1 ...
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How to access localhost on my ubuntu laptop from android tablet? [closed]
I'm developing websites and I want to preview the ones from localhost on my Nexus7.
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Local only sendmail that delivers all mail to a directory
I have a development Ubuntu Server (12.04.1) VM that I use to develop php sites and e-commerce sites (like Magento etc).
Because this is for development purposes, and I need to test with e-mail ...
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How to change port number utorrent in ubuntu?
I just installing Utorrent in ubuntu but I want to change the port number localhost:8080 to localhost:8085 because my apache geronimo server using that port number. can i change the port number? ...
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Localhost still exist after deleting xampp
After installing xampp, somehow localhost bugged on me.
I put my files, changed permissions, in the end deleted the xampp, but I always get this message:
It works!
This is the default web ...
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How to access localhost on Virtualbox host machine
I created a virtual machine on Virtualbox with Ubuntu 12.04 only to install a LAMP solution and use it with my host machine, but I can't access the localhost using the ip (10.0.2.15) in the browser .
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Port listening on localhost:8000 but not on ip:8000
Hello I'm running a web application on port 8000. When I access it from the host server localhost:8000 it responds ok, 127.0.0.1:8000 also works, but 192.168.1.7:8000 does not work. 192.168.1.7 is the ...
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How read local email in thunderbird?
I just install postfix and configure it for local email only as a way to have a sendmail program and test my PHP scripts. My question is, how can I use an HTML capable email client like Thunderbird to ...
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Generate a proper 404 page for blocked sites via /etc/hosts instead of redirect to localhost
I have blocked some websites by editing /etc/hosts and adding several newline-entries in the following manner:
0.0.0.0 www.domain.com
And it works. The only thing is: when a website is visited which ...
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Can't find Localhost files
Hope you can help. This is my first time trying Ubuntu/Linux.
I am logged in as root
I have downloaded and installed LAMP and PHPMYADMIN.
I get the test page under localhost say that It works and is ...
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Where is the root directory of localhost
I installed php5 from the Software-Center and it came along with Apache2.
Where is the localhost root folder where I can put up my files
How can I install mysql database along with phpMyAdmin after ...
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Rename localhost folder. Gives empty screen
I'm trying to rename my apache2 localhost folder.
I have already gone to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/site-name
and changed the following lines in the Document:
DocumentRoot /home/user/public_html
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How to connect to a personal server on residential Internet service
OK!!! I've successfully connected from an external network on both ssh and http. I changed a BUNCH of settings though before I got it to work, so I'm going to slowly change some of them back to see ...
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Accepting SSH connections only from localhost
I just installed SSH and I would like to set it up to only accept connections from localhost. I plan to point a .onion address to it so that I may connect to it from anywhere on any network.
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The domain name does not exist
On my local box(ubuntu 10.10) when I try to access my page I received following error
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://webstartslocal.com/
The following error was encountered:
Unable to ...
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Cannot ping localhost after a half day of uptime
This just started like 4 or 5 days ago. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 desktop, and after about 12 hours of uptime it seems the loopback device just stops working. If I do an ifconfig, it looks like it's ...
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Unable to connect to localhost in browser after installing XAMPP successfully
I have successfully installed XAMPP 1.5.3 following this guide on Ubuntu 12.04 and it started with no errors.
$ sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.5.3a...
XAMPP: Starting Apache ...
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How do I set up FTP on localhost?
On my old machine (back on Lucid!) I used XAMPP for local dev work. XAMPP installed everything for you, including setting up FTP to your localhost (/var/www) directory, since permissions don't allow ...
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Not able to resolve localhost, but 127.0.0.1
I am able to visit 127.0.0.1. When visiting localhost, it is not able to resolve.
Here is /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost # suppose to list all folder + files under /var/www, when visit ...
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What does StackApplet “Network Error” mean?
I just installed StackApplet StackApplet 1.5 using the debian package from the launchpad site. When I first clicked on the preferences button in the menu it tried opening http://localhost:8150/ in ...
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Be able to create edit and move files to and from /var/www [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best way to add files to a website on a LAMP Server?
I have installed lamp on Ubuntu 12.04.
I try to access /var/www but it doesn't allow me to do anything ...
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Can't access localhost
I can't access anything inside of localhost, whenever I try to access anything inside of localhost it gives me 403 Forbidden error. I also can't add any files into the var/www/ folder unless I open it ...
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How can I access one desktop session from another on the same machine?
I want to run a desktop session as user A, and from that session access a different desktop session as user B. This way I can test, screencast or share my screen from session B, while having access to ...
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localhost subdomain wildcard
I'm trying to have *.localhost pointing at 127.0.0.1.
I read this post which is quite recent and looks promising but dnsmasq can't bind port 53:
* Starting DNS forwarder and DHCP server dnsmasq ...
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Ubuntu hostname on lan config
My host computer is Windows 7 64. I have VirtualBox with an Ubuntu 10.04 Server x64 running as guest. My Ubuntu Guest has an ip of 192.168.1.104. I have openssh installed on the guest. I can ssh ...
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How to set exceptions for proxy in Ubuntu 11.10? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where to set proxy ignore list?
I am using Internet through proxy server of our organization. But I don't want to use the proxy server when opening my local websites ...
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telnet localhost , connection is refused
My localhost(127.0.0.1) is reachable by Ping, and no problem with wget.
But, when I try "telnet local host" or "ftp localhost", connection is refused.
How do I fix this problem?
