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I am just setting up my Mandrake 10 box and I am having a problem.
When I use a browser on the MDK box and I try to access the webserver via http://localhost/ or http://127.0.0.1/ I get the following error: "The connection was refused when attempting to contact . . . "
When in a terminal I can ping localhost and it accepts the pings. I'm not sure what to do now.
Did I miss something in the configuration, the firewall looks good, the security level looks good, and I can access the content of the webserver via my Windows box, by typing in the ip address of the Linux box.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by digitalgravy; 05-03-2004 at 11:06 AM.
paijm021: Apache is running, as I can view the content via my windows box.
michaelk: You are correct. That was a good idea, when I type in the ip address of the linux box from the browser on the linux box, it works. And the firewall lets the connections from the windows box through. Just when I try to type in localhost of 127.0.0.1 it doesnt work. Wierd. Any other ideas.
Last edited by digitalgravy; 05-03-2004 at 03:02 PM.
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