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Why does Apache work with 127.0.0.1 but not localhost under windows?

Where is the hosts file on Windows?

Aug 1st, 2004 09:19
Cinley Rodick, Nathan Wallace, http://www.generalforums.com . http://www.generalforums.com/yellow/

Apache is working but your machine cannot resolve the domain localhost
into an IP address (127.0.0.1).
Windows 9x supports a hosts file, so you could just open
    c:\windows\hosts
and add the line:
    127.0.0.1       localhost
Under NT the hosts file is located at:
    C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts