localhost inaccessible on Vista
Solution:
1. If you are running Skype, make sure to change the port option in Advance tab (not to use port 80).
2. If you are using firefox as default browser, type about:config in the url tab, search for "browser.fixup.alternate.enabled" and make it false.
3. Since Vista access localhost via IPv6 as default, we have to remove the localhost mapping for IPv6.
Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc and look for hosts file.
Comment out the last line, so it will look like "#::1 localhost" and leave "127.0.0.1 localhost" along.
You may encounter some UAC problem, while trying to access the hosts file.
The easiest way to get access is to turn off the UAC by a little tool TweakUAC.
( [
www.tweak-uac.com] )
Hope this would help some people.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/19/2009 09:27PM by akcsie.