I think I can speak to the Firefox case. Can you go to File->Work Offline
and uncheck that option? If so, try reloading the page. Seems simple, but I
hope it helps...

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:44 PM, ticktick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> Hallo Matthew,
>
> thank you for your quick response.
> When my ethernet is connected in open Konqueror and Firefox and
> http://localhost shows me the site that resides on /var/www. I created
> something like /var/www/test/test1.html and it worked fine when I
> called http://localhost/test/test1.html, in both browsers. But as soon
> as I pull the plug and press reload, Firefox says something like
> "Firefox is currently in offline mode" and Konqueror complains "cannot
> find http://localhost/test/test1.html";.
>
> On 14 nov, 22:03, "Matthew Ryan Tierney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What kind of error message are you getting back? Is there a specific HTTP
> > status code? And how are you generating the HTTP requests? By a specific
> > browser or otherwise?
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:08 PM, ticktick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear fellow Ubuntu users,
> >
> > > These days I installed apache, php, and the other web server tools for
> > > website development on my workstation. I run "http://localhost"; and
> > > "It works!". But as soon as I disconnect the ethernet cable to the
> > > outside world, the call of "http://localhost"; returns an error
> > > message. How can I develop my stuff without being online continuously?
> >
> > > Sincerely, ticktick
> >
> > --
> > matthew tierney :: 503.998.2076 ::http://eecs.harvard.edu/tierney
> >
>


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