thnx :) On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Varun Jain <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Kartik, > > Well to put that straight I am not much acquainted with drupal except that > it is an open source web management system.Checking its installation from > http://www.slideshare.net/a_rupeshkumar/drupal-xampp-xp-2-presentation the > database port is mostly set to default.In case of drupal this port is 3306 > [voila :) ] and also the site name is set to localhost. > Now as per wiki * > "For IPv4 communications, the virtual loopback interface of a computer > system is normally assigned the address 127.0.0.1 with subnet > mask<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnet_mask> > 255.0.0.0. Depending on the specific operating system in use (notably in > Linux <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux>) and the routing mechanisms > installed, this populates the routing > table<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing_table>of the local system > with an entry so that packets destined to any address > from the 127.0.0.0/8 block would be routed internally to the network > loopback device." > > *So this essentially means you can choose any address amongst the > 127.0.0.0/8 and run drupal without any problem*. > *Now as far as other definitions in hosts file are concerned they deal with > configurations related to ipv6 address.For further details you can google > it. > > Cheers , > Varun :) > * > * > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > http://twincling.org/ > http://twitter.com/twincling > ---------------------------------------- > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
