4 Localhost generally refers to the machine you're looking at. On most machines localhost resolves to the IP address 127.0.0.1 which is the loopback address.
2 Localhost is the computer you're using right now. You run things by typing commands at the command prompt and pressing Enter. If you're asking how to run things from your programming environment, then the answer depends on which environment you're using. Most languages have commands with names like system or exec for running external programs.
What, if any, are the actual differences between using 127.0.0.1 and localhost as the server name, especially when hitting processes running locally that are listening for connections?
You can use it just like any other hostname - try ping localhost to see how it resolves to 127.0.0.1. 0.0.0.0 has a couple of different meanings, but in this context, when a server is told to listen on 0.0.0.0 that means "listen on every available network interface".
I'm currently developing a card game using node.js and gulp, and suddendly Chrome stopped to find localhost:8080. After some research, some people had the same problem and solved it by disabling "B...
I'm currently working on a project and I would like to test it out on two laptops at home where one laptop connects to the localhost on the other. I am using XAMPP. How do I do this?
How do you get the files you just used in command makecert? localhost.pvk localhost.cer cert2spc localhost.cer localhost.spc . How do i get the private.key file to make a allinone.pem file to use in other web-servers then IIS?
The IANA has assigned 80 as the HTTP well-known port number. So browsers use this port by default. If something is listening on a different port, you have to specify the port. If you want your localhost-listening webserver to accept requests on port 80, you need to configure it to do that.
Actually, I didn't use ServerName localhost, just copied (from httpd.conf) DocumentRoot and <Directory parts and it worked fine - same as previously with all hosts except the ServerName s and Alias es in the lower <VirtualHost *:80> tag.
When you access localhost, your /etc/hosts file will tell your computer not to look any further and redirects you to your own computer. When you access the local IP adress, your computer will ask the router to fetch the data, and your router will then point back to your computer.
