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 > > 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 > 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 > > 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 > > 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 > 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 > > wrote: > > localhost > > > > > > localhost > > The local loopback mechanism may be used to run a > network service on a host without requiring a > physical network... > > > > > you need to specify the port number > > > > On Saturday, October 9, 2021, 02:29:07 PM EDT, > Michael via PLUG-discuss > > 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? 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