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@otomatic Thanks for all your replies, I think your suggestions got it working for me for localhost, but I was still having the issue with vhosts. It turns out the network I'm on at my workplace uses a proxy for browsing the web and this was interfering with the dns resolution which is why it was only an issue in the web browser and not the command prompt. The solution was in the end ver
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Thanks so much for all your responses Otomatic. Tried "ipconfig /flushdns", but didn't make a difference sadly. If my host file is like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost and I do "ping localhost" I get a response from 127.0.0.1 And if my host file is like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost and I do "ping localhost" I get a r
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As I mentioned in the initial post: "... the issue does not seem to be present for Internet Explorer, whereas for Chrome and Firefox the localhost to my IP redirect issue persists even after clearing the cache for each browser." Same issue with [127.0.0.1]
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Right. I have spoken with the guys who manage the network, but they're a bit clueless as to why it's happening. If I had something more to go on it may help. Please note that I've got wamp working on another PC on the same network without the redirect issue and prior to wiping the PC I encountering the issue on I had wamp set up just fine also. As mentioned in my intial post, the contents o
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Thanks for your reply Otomatic. It's the IP for the LAN I am on at my workplace. If it's a port-forwarding issue is this something the guys responsible for the networking would have to resolve? Some further info: If I run ipconfig in the cmd I get IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 172.17.10.213 and when I go to in my web browser (even if wamp isn't running) it will redirect to t
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I had to recently wipe my PC and I'm setting up my development environment again using WAMP. After installing WAMP, if I visit instead of seeing the WAMP homepage I get redirected to , where x.x.x.x is my IP. I had this issue on another PC and after setting the inbound rules for Apache HTTP Server in my Windows Firewall settings to allow all domains it fixed the issue. I applied this to my
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