Topic: can't run localhost on my computer?

[CapriSkye]

hello, i hope someone can help me on this. i have apache installed on my computer for testing purposes, and when trying to run localhost ie says error while trying to retrieve the URL: http://localhost.eci.net/
eci is my cable company (a gay one) so i guess it has something to do with the dns stuff. when running ipconfig its Connection-specific DNS Suffix is ECI.NET, when i usually don't have that until i use eci's cable connection. anyone know how i can just type in localhost and ie won't try to go to localhost.eci.net? thanks for the help

[Ben_S]

Sounds like its using a webcache, assuming it's not transparently done, edit your proxy settings in your browser to exclude localhost.

[CapriSkye]

im not using a proxy server though.
do you mean going into lan settings and check to use proxy server for your lan? if yes, do i type in localhost in the address box? i tried and that didn't work...

[[Unknown]]

Try going to:

http://127.0.0.1/

Or:

http://127.0.0.1:8080/

-[Unknown]

[CapriSkye]

just typing the ip works, but says 400 bad request, so i guess it has something to do with my apache set up. thanks guys.

[Ben_S]

hello, i hope someone can help me on this. i have apache installed on my computer for testing purposes, and when trying to run localhost ie says error while trying to retrieve the URL: http://localhost.eci.net/

This is an error message from a caching server, if you havent got any proxy stuff set up in your browser, then your ISP will be doing it trasnparently, meaning there little if anything you can do about it.

Althought it's odd that the request should even get to it if it is transparently done 

[CapriSkye]

it's my isp's problem, when i unplug the cable it will let me use localhost with no problem, just not when connection to the internet. also 127.0.0.1 doesn't work, it just tells me bad request when apache's set up is ok.