Hello everyone, I want to enable 127.0.0.1 in httpd.conf so I can access the site with http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1. I searched over google and found the following solution. I tried but it didn't work.( It return with error that the httpd can't bind to the port something. ) Since the following post was released two years ago while I am using httpd 2.XXX version. It may outdated. Do you guys know how to setup that in httpd.conf if that is still the case? Thanks, --Paul First, make a backup of your httpd.conf file in case you break something while editing it. Open httpd.conf and find the line that begins with ServerName. Edit it so that it looks like this: ServerName 127.0.0.1 Then find the line that begins with Listen and then an IP address or hostname. Edit it to look like this: Listen 127.0.0.1 If you find a second "Listen" line that designates port 80, leave it alone. It should already read: Listen 80 As long as the only listen lines in httpd.conf that are not commented out with a # are: Listen 127.0.0.1 and Listen 80 Then Apache will only accept connections from your local machine on port 80. Restart apache to make your changes take effect. You can test to see if it worked by typing 127.0.0.1 into your web browser. If it worked you should see a default apache page. This is all off of the top of my head, but I think it should work. If it doesn't, just restore your original httpd.conf file from your backup and restart apache again and you'll be no worse off than you were before. If you want to be extra safe, you can also configure your firewall to block INBOUND connections on port 80. Make sure you don't block outbound port 80 or you won't be able to load any external webpages from that computer. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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