localhost

George Toft george at georgetoft.com
Sun Oct 10 16:14:24 MST 2021


Chances are you are not running Apache, so what you observed is normal 
behavior.

Regards,

George Toft

On 10/9/2021 4:54 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> thanks guys. I don't apach or something like that running on my 
> system. I am learning so much!
>
> On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 7:17 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss 
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org 
> <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>
>     Are you running a local web server on port tcp/80/443, otherwise
>     why connection to localhost?  You need a server like apache,
>     nginx, or whatever web server listening on 80/443 for a browser to
>     find a webpage on localhost, which is your system.  Otherwise the
>     browser won't find a socket to connect to let alone a web page,
>     which is what it's telling you.
>
>     ## this will show you anything listening locally on http|https
>     ports and what app did it
>     sudo ss -tpl | grep http
>
>     ## try to connect if you think you should see an open socket from
>     above, below fails
>     [~]# telnet 127.0.0.1 80
>     Trying 127.0.0.1...
>     telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>
>     No active firewall right?
>
>     If you wanted to you can limit host access to bind external
>     sockets like 80/443, or whatever to only 127.0.0.0/8
>     <http://127.0.0.0/8> meaning only local processes can access
>     sockets, not even someone on your local lan.  This is a security
>     practice in application cases for high-speed caching or
>     inter-process communications local to this system only.
>
>     -mb
>
>     On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 12:24 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss
>     <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>     <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>
>         the browser shows the error as:
>         The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try
>         again in a few moments.
>             If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s
>         network connection.
>             If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or
>         proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
>
>         I need to specify a port. Cool. That's all I needed to know.
>
>
>         On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 3:05 PM James Mcphee via PLUG-discuss
>         <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>         <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>
>             Regarding the original question of why the browser is
>             saying "problem with address", what is the actual error? 
>             Name resolution, connection, cert, etc etc?  Those
>             friendly human readable errors leave too much open to
>             interpretation.
>
>             On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 11:59 AM Snyder, Alexander J via
>             PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>             <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>
>
>                 The IP address range *127.0.**0.0 –
>                 127.255.**255.255* is reserved for loopback, i.e. a
>                 Host's self-address, also known as localhost address.
>                 This loopback IP address is managed entirely by and
>                 within the operating system.
>
>                 Thanks,
>                 Alexander.
>
>                 Sent from my Samsung S20+ 5G
>
>                 On Sat, Oct 9, 2021, 11:58 greg zegan via PLUG-discuss
>                 <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>                 <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>
>                     localhost <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost>
>
>
>                     	
>
>
>                         localhost
>
>                     The local loopback mechanism may be used to run a
>                     network service on a host without requiring a
>                     physical network...
>
>                     <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost>
>
>
>                     you need to specify the port number
>
>
>
>                     On Saturday, October 9, 2021, 02:29:07 PM EDT,
>                     Michael via PLUG-discuss
>                     <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>                     <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>
>
>                     Are the addresses for localhost 127.0.0.1 and
>                     127.0.1.1 ? That was a rhetorical question. What
>                     isn't rhetorical is why, when I enter either of
>                     those addresses into a browser , do I get a
>                     'problem with address' page? Are there
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