Failing To Open Http://localhost/ In Browser

[searlaitm]

I would like to test a few things on my WordPress blog before it's really live. My OS is XP and web browser is Firefox.

 

The problem is that I cannot open the web browser in http://localhost/ or 127.0.0.1 It just states that there is a problem loading the page.

 

I opened the Command prompt to ping localhost and it exists. Does anyone have a clue how to do this?

[TCH-Bruce]

You will not be able to open localhost or the IP number without running a web server on your computer.

 

You will need something like XAMPP. But you can do it another way. You can test on the server by modifying the .htaccess file in the root folder of Wordpress.

 

In your .htaccess file enter the following:

 

>order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

 

Replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with your IP address.

[searlaitm]

You will not be able to open localhost or the IP number without running a web server on your computer.

 

You will need something like XAMPP. But you can do it another way. You can test on the server by modifying the .htaccess file in the root folder of Wordpress.

 

In your .htaccess file enter the following:

 

>order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

 

Replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with your IP address.

 

Thanks. I was trying to install xampp and didn't understand that if the Apache server wasn't running then http:/localhost/ wouldn't know what to hook up to. Extraordinary what books can teach you...

 

Also if anyone has had this problem and is running Skype, close it down in the taskbar, because it uses Port 80 and does not share that spot with anything very well.