Topic: Apache without internet connection?

[blindfish]

I know this is going to sound fairly daft but here goes. I have apache / php / mysql installed on a laptop that I use for developing and testing sites. The installation works wonderfully and I have no problems other than this one simple thing. I recently realized that I cannot access the apache server at all if I am somewhere that does not have an internet connection. Why is this? And more importantly, can I fix this?

[James Blond]

What do you type into your browser? http://somename.com? http://localhost?
What did you change in your httpd.conf?

[blindfish]

I am typing http://localhost... into the browser. It's been so long since I set this up that I have no recollection what I changed. I'm just confused as to how I would need an internet connection for one part of my machine to talk to another part of the same machine.

[glsmith]

try looking at your Windows hosts file c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
.. did
127.0.0.1 localhost
get removed from it?

[blindfish]

localhost is actually the first two lines as follows:

127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost


after that it's just a list of roughly 4 billion addresses inserted by spybot.