yeah, but i told you that 'it doesn't help when i shut down the firewall'. so if i close the firewall and then try to visit 'localhost' it still gives the error. this means that firewall isn't the (only) thing that is refusing connection.
i use sygate as a firewall. i made an advanced rule for apache.exe and mysql-nt.exe, allowing all trafic on all ports for those programs.
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