[X4U] Re: X4U Digest, Vol 39, Issue 21

[David Ledger]

At 05:53 -0800 16/11/07, x4u-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:
>Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:53:42 -0800
>From: Daly Jessup <jessup at san.rr.com>
>Subject: Re: [X4U] Hosting on Dot Mac
>To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
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>At 19 37  +0000 11/13/07, David Ledger wrote:
>
>>>How did you set up a server on your Mac to use a "loopback" address?
>>
>>I expected it to be 'localhost' but it didn't work. My bookmarked
>>link was 'loopback' and that worked. I havn't used the webserver on
>>my Pb for some time because of the space.
>>
>>I have an /etc/hosts file which has a
>>127.0.0.1       loopback
>>entry as I would expect. Maybe everyone doesn't have one. I will
>>have copied it from my G4 which went to OSX at 10.0 beta and
>>probably needed it back then.

>Okay, I sort of follow this, though I'm no Unix admin, that's for
>absolutely sure. But I just had a look at my hosts file, and it has
>only localhost, no loopback.

If you have a hosts file entry for 127.0.01 (or whatever the 
database-ey equivalent is on the version of OSX), the name against it 
should work as well. If not, the system will be getting it from some 
other source, and learning about that is a waste of time for me. One 
of the first thing I do is enable admin by files.

David


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