Help with localhost please
 

working on a couple of Mambo templates on the laptop.

Installed PHP5, mysql and apache so I could work on it offline. Mambo installed fine. It's up and running but stalling out and not loading every time. Mambo is 100% correctly installed but connection to my localhost (mycpu) is extremely slow. Requires multiple refreshes....

So i installed xampp to give that a shot...same deal.

I'm running XP Pro.

Any idea on whats wrong? Or possibly what I could try.

check your /windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts file for a localhost entry

I have the standard
127.0.0.1 localhost

in there... what do i add? thinking about installing vhost

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hmm... that should be fine. You might have some software firewall giving you issues, but you'd expect it to never connect if that was the problem. Does putting "127.0.0.1" instead of "localhost" as the adddress load right?

Yup...just as slow. I'm going to give Vhost a shot...but I'm thinking its my VOIP/modem box.

Thanks for your help

if you're already using XP Pro, why not use IIS?

Is the default index.html page with Apache coming up?

Why bother? Isn?t the package call mini-server or something ??? I have it on my laptop.