A question about Localhost with Safari

2015-01-03 Thread William H. Magill
Did Apple change something in Yosemite/Safari so that localhost is no longer an accessible DNS address for Safari? I have no trouble ssh-ing to localhost on my system, but Safari always responds Can't connect to the Server. Note that at one time I was using Apple's Apache via OSX Server, but

Re: A question about Localhost with Safari

2015-01-03 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 3, 2015, at 3:41 PM, William H. Magill wrote: Did Apple change something in Yosemite/Safari so that localhost is no longer an accessible DNS address for Safari? I have no trouble ssh-ing to localhost on my system, but Safari always responds Can't connect to the Server. Note

Re: A question about Localhost with Safari

2015-01-03 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Sat, 3 Jan 2015, Ryan Schmidt wrote: I experience the problem on Yosemite that localhost will randomly switch between accessing the IPv4 address of my server (which works) and the IPv6 address of my server (which apparently isn't working). I've had to start using 127.0.0.1 instead,

Re: A question about Localhost with Safari

2015-01-03 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Saturday January 03 2015 18:45:15 Ryan Schmidt wrote: I experience the problem on Yosemite that localhost will randomly switch between accessing the IPv4 address of my server (which works) and the IPv6 address of my server (which apparently isn't working). I've had to start using

Re: A question about Localhost with Safari

2015-01-03 Thread William H. Magill
On Jan 3, 2015, at 3:41 PM, William H. Magill wrote: Did Apple change something in Yosemite/Safari so that localhost is no longer an accessible DNS address for Safari? I have no trouble ssh-ing to localhost on my system, but Safari always responds Can't connect to the Server. Note

Re: A question about Localhost with Safari

2015-01-03 Thread Michael Crawford
HTTP 1.0 used only the IP address; if you wanted a single server to serve multiple domains, it needed to have multiple IP addresses. HTTP 1.1 permits the use of the hostname, and a single IP that multiple hosts all share. However, in general it should work to leave off the hostname. What you'd

Re: A question about Localhost with Safari

2015-01-03 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 4, 2015, at 1:06 AM, William H. Magill wrote: What triggered my query was the fact that various how to pages describe using localhost as a mechanic for testing certain web based services -- which did not work! https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/Apache2 I'm guessing that the