Susie Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 This isn't a big deal, but I do wonder why I cannot access my wamp installation via http://localhost anymore. I was able to do so a while back when I first installed wamp. But then I uninstalled wamp and installed another similar program (can't remember what it was). But just now I uninstalled everything and reinstalled wamp and now I can only access my stuff via the 127.0.0.1 address. Wonder why that is? Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 (edited) WAMP5 is now called Wampserver 2 and that is what I have. During the installation you are given two options for the name, one was localhost and I can't remember what the other was but it might have been 127.0.0.1, so you may have chosen the alternative without realising it. Edited April 15, 2009 by Wickham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susie Posted April 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 Hmmm....I sure don't remember being given an option. Oh well, this works fine. But how annoying that if I click Localhost from the little icon in the tray, I get nothing. lol Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeDev Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Can be a number of different reasons for this. Check your HOSTS file: WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (open it with Notepad) do you see a line in there: 127.0.0.1 localhost if not then add it to the bottom of the file and save it. Or it could be a browser configuration issue. If you're using Internet Explorer then use Firefox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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