Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:58:45PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: > > >Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I have apache installed and lynx, netscape and mozilla do not have a > > >>problem to load http://localhost. > > >> > > >>However, links and w3m fails. Links' error message is: "Host not found" > > >>and w3m's: "Can't load http://localhost";. > > >> > > >>Does this have something to do with apache's configuration? > > > > > >Does http://localhost/ work? Leaving off the trailing slash only works > > >because of a collection of ugly hacks, and URLs shouldn't be stated that > > >way. > > > > That said, http://localhost does work here on both links and w3m (this > > is a woody system). What are the settings for ServerName and > > UseCanonicalName in your httpd.conf? > > No, http://localhost/ does also not work. In the mean time I got > links to work (removing a proxy specification in its configuration) > but removing all w3m configuration did not help. > > httpd.conf: > > ServerName localhost > UseCanonicalName on > > Johann.
Can you 'ping localhost' successfully? Else look at /etc/network/interfaces, the loopback interface must be active (uncommented). -- Andre
