What happens if you install 2 servers on one machine eg: pws and apache - which one is localhost?
RupertA 0 Newbie Poster
atlex2 0 Light Poster
Localhost is just an entry in your hosts config file that points it to your local ip (127.0.0.1?), so what ever machine you have set up to look at the port your using (80 http for you?) then it will be that one. If you have multiple servers listening on same port it might be a problem....
OlyComputers 110 Practically a Master Poster
Like Atlex said, localhost is just a reference to your IP. You can enter HTTP://localhost, FTP://localhost, localhost:80, Localhost:25, localhost:1337, whatever you'd like and it will go to the intended service through the described port.
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