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tonymen
PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:02 am 
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I have installed joomla on my computer and localhost will not display I have to enter 127.0.0.1 for the server configuration to appear so as I can get to the PHP link

I am useing wampsserver.

Any Idea why local host wont display. I have never encountered this before.
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operafox
PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:27 am 
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I am assuming you use a newer verison of windows as you are using wamp.

open c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts in notepad or any other plain text editor and check that localhost points to 127.0.0.1


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operafox
PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:30 am 
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As a side note, you can always assign other fake dns hosts to 127.0.0.1. Just add it in the hosts file. You can assign multiple hosts to the same IP.

I always have 127.0.0.1 set as just "q" for ease of use. This way you can just type in q/sitename in your browser, just a small timesaver compared to typing localhost/sitename.
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tonymen
PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 2:16 pm 
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Thanks for the tip
But I.m using win7 64 bit with a 64nt wampserver.

does that make any difference?
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operafox
PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:41 pm 
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it will work fine, just check your hosts file at the path mentioned above. Instructions are in the file.
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tonymen
PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:41 am 
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open c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts in notepad or any other plain text editor and check that localhost points to 127.0.0.1


I have opened the hosts file but it wont let me change anything, it says I must be an administrator I AM
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operafox
PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:51 am 
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hi, yes you need to save it without the file extension, as you can see in the dialog box you are trying to save it as *.txt, it needs to be extensionless, just "hosts"
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tonymen
PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:06 am 
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I just tried what you suggested but the only options I had to save in the SaveAs dropdown were : Text documents (*.txt) Or All files (*.txt)
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operafox
PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:22 am 
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Try saving it as "all files".

I tought it was weird you werent allowed to save as txt, tried this myself and I was allowed to save as txt in that folder. You need to be logged in as administrator to edit
system files. Tried it on exactly the same system you have w7x64 (ultimate).
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tonymen
PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:11 am 
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I have tried AllFiles (*.txt)

and the computer selects text
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:17 am 
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Save the file as "hosts."
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operafox
PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:53 am 
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yes, but notepad will still add the .txt extension if you dont select "all files" in the dropdown below.

If all fails, you could always save the file as something else, rename it in win explorer to "hosts". (You may need to turn off "hide extensions for known file types") And then replace the hosts file. Remember to backup original! :)
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