Thanks Chaps - I've updated the docs to use 127.0.0.1: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/2343bb3e5b57728f3321824ff278e2e2680e409e
Best wishes Jeremy On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Ton Gerner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Will, > > Thanks for sharing your experience. > > > On Thursday, January 2, 2014 8:40:32 PM UTC+1, willw wrote: >> >> Hi Ton, >> >> I suspect that the failure with 0.0.0.0 is a Windows issue, so not >> directly related to node. >> > > I too think it is a Windows issue, but if ordinary users like me (just a > TW user, no programmer) want to install node.js on Windows they ought to > know 0.0.0.0 does not work. > So, there ought to be at least a note with the install instructions of > node.js. > > Cheers, > > Ton > > >> >> A couple of weeks ago, while installing TiddlyWeb on Windows, I saw >> similar behaviour - Window's doesn't seem to serve 0.0.0.0 while Linux >> is happy to. Did some searching, found similar experience but nothing >> definitive. >> >> If it is true that Windows cannot serve it then 0.0.0.0 should not be a >> default. >> >> My TiddlyWeb on Windows experience is reported on the TiddlyWeb Google >> group. In short, Windows would never serve 0.0.0.0 while results with >> 127.0.0.1 vs. localhost were inconclusive (behaviour on both Windows and >> Linux was inconsistent, possibly due to some state being cached between >> server invocations?). >> >> Will >> >> On Thursday, January 2, 2014 2:18:16 PM UTC-5, Ton Gerner wrote: >>> >>> Hi Jeremy, >>> >>> A long time ago I installed TiddlyWiki + node.js with help of the >>> walkthrough of David Johnston [1]. >>> >>> Today I managed to install it according the new and easier way on 2 PCs >>> (1 x Windows 7 32-bit, 1 x Windows 7 64-bit): >>> >>> npm install -g tiddlywiki >>> tiddlywiki --server >>> >>> But >>> >>> http://0.0.0.0:8080 >>> >>> did not work with Firefox and Chrome. >>> >>> What did work was: >>> >>> http://127.0.0.1:8080 >>> >>> or >>> >>> http://localhost:8080 >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Ton >>> >> -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
