OSX can't access localhost, only username.local

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I've been facing this problem in mountain lion 10.8.3 and I cannot seem to find an answer. The problem is that I can access my "localhost" using username.local or http://127.0.0.1/ but not through localhost. I'm using apache 2.2 and virtualhostx, and for now is fine becuase I map every virtual host with a folder, but when developing in java, using Tomcat, I cannot access localhost, also there I have to access username.local..

my hosts file

127.0.0.1       localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost 
fe80::1%lo0     localhost

If I cant find a solution I only can think of a fresh reinstall.. And this will be very annoying..

Are you able to do `host localhost` from the terminal? What's the output? — Alex Yarmula, Mar 27 '13 at 22:16
I got help from here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19068977/intellij-cant-start-simple-web-application-unable-to-ping-server-at-localhost — Master Drools, Jan 13 '17 at 13:57

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 21 '13 at 16:58

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check your httpd.conf for this line

# Virtual hosts

Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

i had the same issue. Then i discovered that the httod-vhosts.conf file was commented out when i upgraded my OS.

answered Nov 21 '13 at 16:58

gabo

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